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Re: O'Reilly Releases A Goofy Book: Guide to SETI "Beyond Contact"

Craig S. Cottingham
Fri, 30 Mar 2001 11:52:40 -0800

On 2001-03-30 12:30, David L. Nicol at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> I know Dr. Cowdrick will object to me passing this along to the list,
> but would anyone like to review a book about programming languages
> optimized for facilitating communication with ET?

Personally, I think Perl is perfectly suited to that task. I know plenty of
people who claim Perl looks like Martian to them, while *I* believe that
using Perl to communicate with extraterrestrials is the perfect way to
demonstrate our advanced intelligence....

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Craig S. Cottingham
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