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Subject: 
Re: Perl rules!
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lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.off-topic.geek
Date: 
Tue, 13 Jul 1999 15:17:30 GMT
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mattdm@mattdm.{StopSpammers}org
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Matthew Miller <mattdm@mattdm.org> wrote:
So actually it's a pretty good analogy. :)

Another great strength of English is that through years of borrowing ideas
from other languages, you end up with many ways to express the same idea,
allowing the flexibilty both to make things beautiful and to find just the
precise way to convey the exact shade of meaning you want.

(Again, Perl...)

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  Re: Perl rules!
 
(...) It also means there are 50 thousand rules to learn, and 50 million exceptions to those rules. At least we don't have to cojugate (sp?) anything... Steve (25 years ago, 13-Jul-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.off-topic.geek)

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  Re: Perl rules!
 
(...) Hey, I'm going to have to take issue with that. English can be a very beautiful language. It can also be an ugly language, but that doesn't mean that it can't be amazing poetry in the right hands. So actually it's a pretty good analogy. :) (25 years ago, 13-Jul-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.off-topic.geek)

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