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From: Aaron J. Grier
Subject: perl
Date: 05:36 on 18 Dec 2006
On Tue, Dec 12, 2006 at 10:56:52AM -0600, Peter da Silva wrote:
> The problem with Perl is not that it doesn't make sense, because it
> does...  it makes sense in the manner of poetry, with brilliant puns
> buried in every line, and ferreting them all out means hours of play.
> Seen as a work of art, Perl is James Joyce and John Donne, Milton and
> Don Maquis, and Shakespeare throwing in a brace of dirty limericks to
> salt the pot.

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.

I'm an engineer.  not a poet.

-- 
  Aaron J. Grier | "Not your ordinary poofy goof." | agrier@xxxxxxxxx.xxx
              "silly brewer, saaz are for pils!"  --  virt
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