Re: Tolkein (was Re: PDD for code comments ????)

[Nicholas Clark]

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

Nicholas Clark