I can report in Christmas spirit, that "coax" worked better than "pry".
PMA wrote: > Thanks Roger! I'd give it a shot, if we weren't taken up > prying my daughter's kitten out of the Christmas tree. > > > Roger Hui wrote: >> Reminds me of what Ken told me once: Let's you and him fight. No thanks! >> :-) >> >> Merry Christmas everyone. >> >> >> >> On Sat, Dec 24, 2011 at 9:02 AM, PMA<peterarmstr...@aya.yale.edu> wrote: >> >>> Anybody want to take up the flag? >>> Happy Holidays! >>> PMA >>> >>> -------- Original Message -------- >>> Subject: Re: OT programming languages/ systems for advanced applications >>> on Linux >>> Date: Sat, 24 Dec 2011 11:50:59 -0500 >>> From: PMA<peterarmstr...@aya.yale.edu> >>> To: debian-u...@lists.debian.org >>> >>> Rather than APL itself -- value judgement aside -- >>> you might consider its successor and superset, >>> *J* ( http://www.jsoftware.com/ ). >>> >>> >>> Miles Fidelman wrote: >>>> David Christensen wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Any other comments/ suggestions regarding programming languages/ >>>>> systems for advanced applications on Linux? >>>>> >>>> Lisp >>>> Smalltalk >>>> Erlang >>>> Haskell >>>> Caml/OCaml >>>> APL - if you're crazy or want to be; or you could go all the way to >>>> Brainfuck (http://esolangs.org/wiki/Brainfuck) >>>> for that matter, Ada, if you're writing >>>> mission-critical/safety-critical >>>> systems >>>> >>>> If you're really interested in programming languages: >>>> http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/ >>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm >>> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm