On Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 05:39:28AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Akim Demaille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >>>>>> "Alexandre" == Alexandre Oliva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Alexandre> I hate Perl. Really. I mean it.
Me too. Every week. It's offensively ugly -- nothing but a
bucket of special cases. But it works.
> [Perl] is, however, about the most
> ubiquitous language available outside of Bourne, Korn, C-shell (which
> isn't even worth thinking about -- *shudder*), and C. You'll probably
> find more systems with Perl than with a working C++ compiler.
FWIW, there's also more likely to be a binary Perl distribution
than some of the others. Perl lists 50 or so platforms either
with binary distributions, or with Perl included in the
distribution. Python lists 17.
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|-_|/ > Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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With sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine. However, this is not
necessarily a good idea.
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