On Sat, Feb 17, 2001 at 08:02:08AM -0800, yaphet jones wrote:
> the tchrist (christiansen) said it best, when he described perl5:
> >>>...an "expert-friendly" language...
And he was right. Perl is *not* deliberately dumbed down, because, unlike
other languages, we do *not* assume our users are dumb.
That's not to say it's offensively smart, either. :)
--
"Jesus ate my mouse" or some similar banality.
-- Megahal (trained on asr), 1998-11-06
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