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On Sun, Dec 17, 2006 at 09:36:52PM -0800, Aaron J. Grier wrote:
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> this is exactly what I hate about perl.  "there's more than one way to
> do it" invariably means that some dumbfucks out there will attempt to do
> it every single way possible in the language.  perl apparently prides
> itself on this.

Ah, but back in the early days of the perl-on-NT effort from
ActiveState (please please please don't make me remember any more) I
used to say "it's a damn good thing that there's more than one way to
do it, because most of them don't work!"=20

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• perl Aaron J. Grier 05:36 on 18 Dec 2006
  • Re: perl A. Pagaltzis 06:01 on 18 Dec 2006
    • code poetry Aaron J. Grier 06:43 on 18 Dec 2006
  • Re: perl David Mackintosh 12:47 on 18 Dec 2006
  • David Cantrell 17:24 on 21 Dec 2006
    • Chris Nandor 17:40 on 21 Dec 2006
    • Peter da Silva 05:54 on 22 Dec 2006
    • Aaron J. Grier 08:03 on 26 Dec 2006

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