On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 14:29, Peter Corlett <ab...@cabal.org.uk> wrote: > On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 01:42:05PM +0000, Peter Corlett wrote: >> On 31 Jan 2012, at 05:18, Avleen Vig wrote: >> [...] >>> This is the problem with TMTOWTDI. >>> There should just be one way to do it. Then we wouldn't have this problem. >> If you want Python, you know where you can find it. > > OK, on re-reading, that sounds a little bit grumpy. > > TMTOWTDI is what gives us the richness and flexibility of Perl and CPAN. > Standardising on One True Way and being unforgiving of deviating from that > norm prevents innovation and renovation of the language. Would you really > still like to be writing in late-1990s Perl instead of Modern Perl? > > Take TMTOWTDI away, and it's no longer Perl. Python is better than a > straightjacketed Perl.
I'd make a material bet Avleen was joking. Not to mention, pretty much every modern language exhibits plurality in implementation possibilities (PIMP? :). Paul
