At 02:40 PM 9/14/00 +0100, Piers Cawley wrote:
>Simon Cozens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > On Tue, Sep 12, 2000 at 03:17:47PM -0400, Ken Fox wrote:
> > > That's fine for the VM and the support libraries, but I'd *really*
> > > like to see the parser/front-end in Perl. There are dozens of RFCs
> > > that require some non-trivial extensions to the parser. It would
> > > be nice to code these in Perl
> >
> > Are there any better reasons than "It would be nice?"
>
>Can there *be* a better reason than "It would be nice"? Seriously,
>niceness is a damned fine goal.
I rather prefer "That'd fix something that really pisses me off", which is
the driving force behind a lot of perl. (At least for us grumpy people)
Dan
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