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On 12/12/06 01:23 Daniel Pittman wrote: > This is simple: > > format "~A ~A ~A" a-string an-array a-hash > > This is complex: > > print "$astring, @anarray, %ahash" I consider the Perl way of doing things simpler, but that's because I'm used to it. I don't think either way is more or less complex, or hateful. It's what you're used to, and how you're used to thinking. > ... > I hate Windows because it has sunk so far into that tar pit that most > developers can't imagine the daylight any more, let alone see that it > might be achievable. What does Windows have to do with the hatefulness of Perl syntax? > Perl suffers from wanting to be any number of things, and by adding > extra complexity and indirection to achieve it. It guesses what you > want. It has stupid interpolation defaults, but you can't bypass them. There's a difference between hating software because it it doesn't make sense to you, and hating it because it doesn't make sense. RobThere's stuff above here
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