"Erik Naggum hated Perl with a passion, and considered Perl to be a problem, not a problem solver.[10] He disliked C++, though not as much as he hated Perl, but he generally thought that C++ was too difficult to understand to such a degree that only about 5 people on the planet truly understood it and hence it was of little value for humanity."
And it only took the rest of the programming community 30 years to finally come on board with that idea and create the Rust language. Ted -----Original Message----- From: PLUG <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Russell Senior Sent: Sunday, April 5, 2026 5:01 AM To: PLUG <[email protected]> Subject: [PLUG] Followup: Portland Linux/Unix Group General Meeting: Bring Your Own When USENET came up during the meeting, I mentioned a person no one admitted having heard of, so here's a short bio on wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erik_Naggum -- Russell Senior [email protected]
