RE: Perl culture, perl readabillity

[Greg Williamsqqq]

On Mon, 26 Mar 2001, David Grove wrote:

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> Python has its place, and I do support it and its growingly cocky users
> (not that they have much to be cocky about since they're the largest group
> of lamers this side of VB) and frankly it needs to stay there. Same thing
> for Java, REBOL, PHP (the nerve of that upstart perl module!) and
> ColdFusion.
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> Ruby is coming into its own now, but I won't throttle Ruby because I
> haven't heard them speak out of bounds yet...
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> (We also need someone to manage the Advocacy mailing list who will stomp
> these twerps rather than encourage them.)

I'm sorry to drag this thread out any longer, but I thought this should be
read:

"Be An Advocate Not An Asshole"
http://prometheus.frii.com/~gnat/yapc/2000-advocacy/slide1.html

.g