On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 10:55 AM, Shlomi Fish <[email protected]> wrote:
> Well, first of all, it should be noted that the "$" sign is generally > associated with greed for money (Like "Make $$$ fast.") etc. So you say Larry Wall makes all of us Perl programmers greedy? He basically invented the extensive use of the $ signs: use 5.010; $what = "the_answer"; $$what = 42; say $the_answer; say $$$what; > If "M$" implied respect for both the dollar sign and for Microsoft, it would > be OK, but fact is it undermines both. I think /M$/ just means it ends with an M but I am just a greedy Perl hacker. Gabor http://szabgab.com/ _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
