At 12:21 PM 7/30/01 -0700, I wrote:
>It is beautiful, but I fear it could scare a beginner away. I'd rather
>such brilliance were directed to the Fun With Perl list than exposed to
>people many of whom are no doubt still wondering whether Perl is a
>write-only language.
Harrumph, I wasn't caught up with the earlier part of the thread, so I
apologize for picking on Jeff. Besides, it's appropriately marked [OT].
The whole thread is still scary for a beginner, though. Let's all focus on
being clear rather than clever. There's a list called FWP (see
lists.perl.org) for the latter.
>Which might be a cue for Tim Maher to pipe up and talk about his "minimal
>Perl" dialect, if he's here...
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