Amir admitted
> On Fri, Aug 31, 2001 at 11:30:32AM +0100, Jose Abilio Oliveira Matos wrote:
> > On Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 05:18:49PM -0400, Amir Karger wrote:
> > > Right. So it's just that Perl didn't have the sophisticated understanding of
> > > $foo(bar) beforehand. (Of course, this opens up the possibility of bugs,
> > > because I sometimes write $foo(bar) when I meant $foo[bar]. Leftover habit
> > > from BASIC, I guess.)
I'm glad I"m not the only one that still has BASIC flashbacks . . . Of
course, since I'm usually using Fortran, they generall work :) [And I
do miss midstr$() . . .
> > I'm disapointed with you, you were my idol. Now all is lost, and nothing
> > makes sense. Thanks for this friday Amir, you destroyed my dreams to become
> > a great perl programmer.
> Well, if it makes you feel better, I recently finished my doctorate, and got
> a job at a bioinformatics company, where at least for the first four months
> I've been programming Perl full time. It's a lot of fun! Someone called me
> "Mr. Perl" the other day :)
The correct response is, "Ahem. That's *Dr.* Perl" . . .
> OTOH, don't tell anyone, but I may be learning Java soon.
There's 12 step programs for that. We have them for everything now.
hawk, the recovering lawyer, more than seven years since his last
lawsuit
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