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Subject: 
The Continuing Desecration of Perl, or, www.perl.com (Was: Perl rules!)
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Date: 
Sun, 18 Jul 1999 02:41:09 GMT
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AAAAAAAAGH!

Has anyone seen what they've done to www.perl.com today!?!?!?  They've dumbed
it down!  It's absolutely *LOADED* with O'Reilly logos and ads!  Perl is the
tree, and the dog pack of O'Reilly and Associates just pissed on it!  I'm more
afraid of Tim O'Reilly mangling Perl than I am about MS doing the job.  This
now justifies my concerns.  I'm going to have to start directly bookmarking
the CPAN.  :-<  Fume.  Rant.  I am torqued.

I could go on about how the acronym ORA could be applicable here, but I'll
refrain for fear of peeling the pixels from your screens.

Grumble,
- jsproat



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  Re: Perl rules!
 
(...) Yah, no argument there. I prefer the Windows 4 GUI over almost anything else (1), and I can run a wide range of apps on my NT box. But, I know the difference between reliability and popularity, and for mission-critical apps where down time (...) (25 years ago, 18-Jul-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.off-topic.geek)

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