Re: Invalid Operating System

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From: Robert Rothenberg
Subject: Re: Invalid Operating System
Date: 00:00 on 12 Dec 2006

On 11/12/06 23:12 Peter da Silva wrote:
>>> One reason I'm down on Perl is that an awful lot of stuff that
>>> I find hateful in the shell is stuff that Larry Wall faithfully
>>> replicated in Perl....
> 
>> Such as?
> 
> The things I mentioned several messages back, most expecially the ad-hoc
> syntax and complex macro-style variable substitution.

What's complex about it?  I *wish* Perl had complex macro-style variable
substitution.

There's stuff above here

peter (Peter da Silva) 23:12 on 11 Dec 2006
- A. Pagaltzis 23:59 on 11 Dec 2006
  - Abigail 06:58 on 12 Dec 2006
    - too deep to show
- Robert Rothenberg 00:00 on 12 Dec 2006

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