>Kenny or mod, both of whom, if they had cared to I'm >sure, could have figured either one-liner out in as >much time.
You're right, of course - I did. And I hope nobody took any offense at my request for explanations. FYI, when I asked for y'all to explain your one-liners I did it (as much as anything else) for the benefit of the silent lurkers today and those who might be cruising these archives in future. I like to think the GNHLUG list is good for that sort of thing. When I (and others, I assume) gripe about Perl we're not demanding that full enlightenment leap directly from the source code on the page/screen into our neural pathways with no prior expenditure of time or effort on the part of the reader. But here I am trying to add Perl to the list of languages I know and, in some senses, Perl pisses me off because it *is* familiar - it's a Frankenstein tangle of bleeding chunks ripped from various other languages that I'm expert in. It's the same, only different. With Perl, those similarities trick me into thinking that I know what's going on when I really don't. Maybe I'd have more patience with it if it was completely UNfamiliar... _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss