On Fri, 2006-01-27 at 01:40 -0700, Shane Hathaway wrote: > I actually think Perl has a really provocative philosophy. As I > understand it, Larry Wall is a linguist, and he has observed that > spoken languages evolve in strange ways, so why shouldn't programming > languages do the same? The result might be a programming language > that assimilates new concepts with ease, enabling it to progress > faster than other languages, at the cost of having no absolute rules. > Combine that with the open source philosophy and you have an exciting > language
Somewhere in there is a good joke about Perl and [1]Pidgin. Until I find it, all I have to say is, "Perl full on da-kine, brah." Gabe [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pidgin /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
