On Dec 16, 2006, at 10:45 AM, A. Pagaltzis wrote:
(Although I suppose it's much like what you said about POSIX sh: the alternatives [to Perl 4] of that era were even more hateful.)
No, sir, that would not be an operative statement, sir.POSIX sh was much later than the era I was talking about. By a decade at least.
And Perl has always been one of the more hateful alternatives. In any era.
