Re: du

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From: Martin Ebourne
Subject: Re: du
Date: 10:33 on 30 Sep 2005
Jonathan Trites <tritesnikov@xxxxx.xxx> wrote:
> This reminds me of a saying I once heard:
>
> A computer will do exactly what you tell it to do, which is rarely
> what you want it to do.
>
> Stupid computers. You should just know what I want and automatically do it.

The result of that philosophy is perl 4. It's taken '-w' and 'use 
strict' to make that into anything resembling a useable language, and 
as useful as perl is, there's still plenty of hate left.

Cheers,

Martin.
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