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
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