Larry Wall wrote:
Last night I got a message entitled: yum: 1 Updates Available.
Of course, that's probably just a Python programmer giving up on doing
the right thing, but we see this sort of bletcherousness all the time.
After a recent exchange on PerlMonks about join, I've been thinking
* Larry Wall ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [080126 16:58]:
Last night I got a message entitled: yum: 1 Updates Available.
After a recent exchange on PerlMonks about join, I've been thinking
about the problem of pluralization in interpolated strings, where we
get things like:
say Received $m
Author: larry
Date: Sun Jan 27 14:49:15 2008
New Revision: 14496
Modified:
doc/trunk/design/syn/S03.pod
Log:
Clarify range ending semantics for autoincrement sequences that will never
match the to
Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S03.pod
Perl - when I first met it - was great because it handled text easily
and 'naturally'. I now use perl for everything, even when another
language would probably be better.
Perl6 has gone a long way to making things more universal by using
UNICODE, (The difficulties of non-Latin fonts and
