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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Jon Acierto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, August 18, 2001 12:29 AM
Subject: Re: PERL IS NOT A HIGH LEVEL LANGUAGE
[...]
Instead of only tring to comfort one another among ourselves, with all sorts
of valid arguments as we have been doing so far, let us write separate,
individual e-mails, with our own e-mail addresses, to the Admissions
Counselor at U.W. (Jon can probably find out the e-mail address and let us
know it) to make him notice that there are many Perl experts who disagree
with the opinion expressed by the Reviewer, and inviting such person to a
technical discussion with respect to the high level qualities of Perl. The
messages would have to be corteous, polite, to the point, and clear on their
intent. I would suggest something like this: (even if everyone chose the
same pattern, it still would be OK):
Dear Counselor:
I have been informed that my friend and colleague Jon Acierto has been
denied consideration for a programming position at U.W. on the basis that
"he only has 2 years of experience with the Perl language" and not in other
computer programming languages. The C++ Applications Reviewer has also
expressed the opinion that Jon's experience is not even comparable to
someone with a knowledge of COBOL!!.
[...]
Seems like a good initiative. I am in.
But i hope it works.
Ignorance is hard to fight...
Maarten.
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