On Saturday 30 December 2006 21:53, Greg Folkert wrote: > On Sat, 2006-12-30 at 21:20 +0200, David Baron wrote: > [...snip...] > > > PERL style has changed radically over the years as has its usage > > (PERL==PErsonal Report Language and who uses it for this nowadays?). > > Object oriented programming (with silly syntax) can be as good as newer > > languages. PERL can be readable as c (but that is not saying so much). > > Oh, boy. Perl is just *Perl*. Not PERL, PeRl, Practical Extraction and > Reporting Language, PErsonal Report Language... NO nothing but Perl. > > I have been scolded and admonished by Higher ups in the Perl "world", > those being Perl core team members, top Perl Monks and many on the Perl > lists. > > For your own safety and not to be laghed out of a Perl conference or > mocked by hundreds please use it as: > > Perl > > Perl is Perl. Period. > > (Yes I know, no need to point out the fallacy.)
Cool! As I said, things have changed radically since the beginnings. A fun language regardless :-) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
