On Wed, 26 Jun 2002, Craig Hammer wrote:
> Have you ever tried to wade through The Silmarillion?
>
> Craig Hammer
As a matter of fact, I just bought and started reading it yesterday. I
didn't yet get any further than Cristopher Tolkien's introduction :-)
I do expect to like it though, as I also
On Jun 26, Craig Hammer said:
>Have you ever tried to wade through The Silmarillion?
I resent that. ;) I love that book. I've read it twice through
now. I've read LotR three times, and I'm reading The Hobbit for the third
time, and only now do I realize what a child's book it is.
The Silmari
At 05:24 PM 6/25/02 -0700, Randal L. Schwartz wrote:
> > "Jeff" == Jeff 'Japhy' Pinyan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>Jeff> Perhaps this is because programmers are of the sci-fi/fantasy
>Jeff> book-reading ilk, and LotR is perhaps the pinnacle of fantasy.
>
>As a counterpoint, I read the Hobbi
so I can't claim to be unbiased on any
conversation about LOTR or StarWars.
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On 25 Jun 2002, Randal L. Schwartz wrote:
> > "Jeff" == Jeff 'Japhy' Pinyan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Jeff> Perhaps this is because programmers are of the sci-fi/fantasy
> Jeff> book-reading ilk, and LotR is perhaps the pinnacle of fantasy.
>
> As a counterpoint, I read the Hobbit two o
From: "Nigel Peck" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Something occured to me the other day and I'm interested to know what
> people's opinions are on this list. When I'm reading the camel or
> other Perl books such as Perl and XML, the majority of the humour is
> related to The Hobbit, Lord of the Rings and T
On Fri, 21 Jun 2002, Nigel Peck wrote:
> Perl books such as Perl and XML, the majority of the humour is related
> to The Hobbit, Lord of the Rings and The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the
> Galaxy. These are my favorite books. Is it
> a) a coincidence
> b) that they're so popular with people from all
--- Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Perhaps this is because programmers are of the sci-fi/fantasy book-reading
> ilk, and LotR is perhaps the pinnacle of fantasy. I've read it three
> times, and it's probably my favorite book, although sci-fi books like
> "Stranger in a Stran
On Friday, June 21, 2002, at 09:07 , Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan wrote:
[..]
First off my complements for the citations from the holy text.
Few general purpose perlers go in and read the header files.
> Perhaps this is because programmers are of the sci-fi/fantasy book-reading
> ilk, and LotR is perhaps
On Fri, 21 Jun 2002, Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan wrote:
>On Jun 21, Nigel Peck said:
>
>>Something occured to me the other day and I'm interested to know what
>>people's opinions are on this list. When I'm reading the camel or other
>>Perl books such as Perl and XML, the majority of the humour is related
On Fri, 21 Jun 2002, bob ackerman wrote:
>On Friday, June 21, 2002, at 09:15 AM, drieux wrote:
>
>>
>> On Friday, June 21, 2002, at 08:38 , Nigel Peck wrote:
>> [..]
>>> Or is it d, something I shouldn't be wasting my time thinking about so
>>> move on (boring git).
>>
>
>
>> IT IS A SCARY PLACE
On Friday, June 21, 2002, at 09:15 AM, drieux wrote:
>
> On Friday, June 21, 2002, at 08:38 , Nigel Peck wrote:
> [..]
>> Or is it d, something I shouldn't be wasting my time thinking about so
>> move on (boring git).
>
> IT IS A SCARY PLACE OUT THERE!!!
>
> ciao
> drieux
>
or 'out there' is
On Friday, June 21, 2002, at 08:38 , Nigel Peck wrote:
[..]
> Or is it d, something I shouldn't be wasting my time thinking about so
> move on (boring git).
There are two official answers here:
a) This is a Matter of Religion,
if you do not use the Module Religion
On Jun 21, Nigel Peck said:
>Something occured to me the other day and I'm interested to know what
>people's opinions are on this list. When I'm reading the camel or other
>Perl books such as Perl and XML, the majority of the humour is related
>to The Hobbit, Lord of the Rings and The Hitch Hiker
Something occured to me the other day and I'm interested to know what
people's opinions are on this list. When I'm reading the camel or other
Perl books such as Perl and XML, the majority of the humour is related
to The Hobbit, Lord of the Rings and The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the
Galaxy. These are
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