On Fri, Aug 31, 2001 at 11:30:32AM +0100, Jose Abilio Oliveira Matos wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 05:18:49PM -0400, Amir Karger wrote:
> > On Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 04:50:48PM +0100, Jose Abilio Oliveira Matos wrote:
> > > On Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 08:49:49AM -0400, Amir Karger wrote:
> > >
> > Yeah, that's OK too.
>
> Actually I have choosen your alternative, I really dislike the ()->, grrr...
> (sorry Yves, nothing personal, on the other hand since today is friday it
> is after all).
Recall the Perl motto, "There's more than one way to do it." Although in
this case, some ways are more confusing than others.
> > Right. So it's just that Perl didn't have the sophisticated understanding of
> > $foo(bar) beforehand. (Of course, this opens up the possibility of bugs,
> > because I sometimes write $foo(bar) when I meant $foo[bar]. Leftover habit
> > from BASIC, I guess.)
>
> I'm disapointed with you, you were my idol. Now all is lost, and nothing
> makes sense. Thanks for this friday Amir, you destroyed my dreams to become
> a great perl programmer.
Well, if it makes you feel better, I recently finished my doctorate, and got
a job at a bioinformatics company, where at least for the first four months
I've been programming Perl full time. It's a lot of fun! Someone called me
"Mr. Perl" the other day :)
OTOH, don't tell anyone, but I may be learning Java soon.
> PS: Even after your deeds, I have destroyed all the evidences that there
> were times when you didn't remember to use push. Now even c++ has it...
Thank you!
Have a good weekend, even if you don't get to take Monday off like we lazy
Americans do.
-Amir
