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Re: Release next week?
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Eric Siegerman |
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Re: Release next week? |
Date: |
Tue, 10 Apr 2001 14:36:32 -0400 |
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On Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 05:39:28AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Akim Demaille <address@hidden> writes:
> >>>>>> "Alexandre" == Alexandre Oliva <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > Alexandre> I hate Perl. Really. I mean it.
Me too. Every week. It's offensively ugly -- nothing but a
bucket of special cases. But it works.
> [Perl] is, however, about the most
> ubiquitous language available outside of Bourne, Korn, C-shell (which
> isn't even worth thinking about -- *shudder*), and C. You'll probably
> find more systems with Perl than with a working C++ compiler.
FWIW, there's also more likely to be a binary Perl distribution
than some of the others. Perl lists 50 or so platforms either
with binary distributions, or with Perl included in the
distribution. Python lists 17.
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|-_|/ > Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont. address@hidden
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With sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine. However, this is not
necessarily a good idea.
- RFC 1925 (quoting an unnamed source)
- Re: Release next week?, (continued)
- Re: Release next week?, Akim Demaille, 2001/04/10
- Re: Release next week?, Lars J. Aas, 2001/04/10
- Re: Release next week?, Russ Allbery, 2001/04/10
- Re: Release next week?, Akim Demaille, 2001/04/10
- Re: Release next week?, Lars J. Aas, 2001/04/10
- Re: Release next week?, Akim Demaille, 2001/04/10
- Re: Release next week?, Morten Eriksen, 2001/04/10
- Re: Release next week?, Russ Allbery, 2001/04/10
- Re: Release next week?, Eric Siegerman, 2001/04/10
- Re: Release next week?, Tom Tromey, 2001/04/10
- Re: Release next week?,
Eric Siegerman <=
- Re: Release next week?, Lars J. Aas, 2001/04/10
- Re: Release next week?, Bob Proulx, 2001/04/10
- Re: Release next week?, Esben Haabendal Soerensen, 2001/04/11
- Re: Release next week?, Paul Eggert, 2001/04/11
Re: Perl vs Scheme vs ML vs ... for autoconf, Paul Eggert, 2001/04/10
- Re: Perl vs Scheme vs ML vs ... for autoconf, Akim Demaille, 2001/04/10
- Re: Perl vs Scheme vs ML vs ... for autoconf, Paul Eggert, 2001/04/10
- Re: Perl vs Scheme vs ML vs ... for autoconf, Akim Demaille, 2001/04/10
- Re: Perl vs Scheme vs ML vs ... for autoconf, Russ Allbery, 2001/04/10
- Re: Perl vs Scheme vs ML vs ... for autoconf, Akim Demaille, 2001/04/10