On Tue, 20 Feb 2001 18:18:31 +0000 Nicholas Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 06:06:49PM +0000, David Mitchell wrote:
> > > > And what about us poor semi-literates who've never heard of Yojimbo ???
> > > > If we can't go with Tolkien, I'd vote for Pratchett, 'cause *everyone*'s
> > > > read him :-)
> > >
> > > Adams rather than Pratchett, I'd think. :)
> >
> > But Pratchet has 20+ books to his credit, so we need never run out of quotes
> > :-)
>
> As long as Terry Pratchett writes books faster than perl consumes quotes.
> Based on the fact that he's still very alive, we aren't in danger yet.
>
> However, Larry has already commented on the danger of running out of LOTR
> quotes:
>
> http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2000-02/msg00369.html
My name (Merijn) is *from* Tolkien's dutch translation, so I'm a little biases
if I state: "Stick with Tolkien". Well, I'm of to Mordor now ...
--
H.Merijn Brand
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OSF/1 4.0 and WinNT 4.0 SP-6a, often with Tk800.020 and/or DBD-Unify
ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/languages/perl/CPAN/authors/id/H/HM/HMBRAND/
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