Larry Wall wrote:
> Last night I got a message entitled: "yum: 1 Updates Available".
> Of course, that's probably just a Python programmer giving up on doing
> the right thing, but we see this sort of bletcherousness all the time.
>
> After a recent exchange on PerlMonks about join, I've been thin
* Larry Wall ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [080126 16:58]:
> Last night I got a message entitled: "yum: 1 Updates Available".
> After a recent exchange on PerlMonks about join, I've been thinking
> about the problem of pluralization in interpolated strings, where we
> get things like:
>
> say "Received
Author: larry
Date: Sun Jan 27 14:49:15 2008
New Revision: 14496
Modified:
doc/trunk/design/syn/S03.pod
Log:
Clarify range ending semantics for autoincrement sequences that will never
match the "to"
Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S03.pod
=
Perl - when I first met it - was great because it handled text easily
and 'naturally'. I now use perl for everything, even when another
language would probably be better.
Perl6 has gone a long way to making things more universal by using
UNICODE, (The difficulties of non-Latin fonts and coding
