Stephen P. Potter writes:
> It seems to me that recently (the last two years or so) and
> especially with 6, perl is no longer the SAs friend. It is no
> longer a fun litle language that can be easily used to hack out
> solutions to problems. It is now (becoming) a full featured
> language, quit
On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 03:22:04PM -0400, Stephen P. Potter wrote:
> This is quite a simple little script. The majority of the changes that are
> being talked about won't ever show up in this. It'd be nice if you could
> show something a little more complex.
The problem is that some people are
Stephen P. Potter writes:
> This is quite a simple little script. The majority of the changes
> that are being talked about won't ever show up in this. It'd be
> nice if you could show something a little more complex.
The point I was making is that the perl4 stuff won't change
significantly.
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On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 03:01:47PM -0400, Stephen P. Potter wrote:
> It seems to me that recently (the last two years or so) and especially with
> 6, perl is no longer the SAs friend. It is no longer a fun litle language
> that can be easily used to hack out solutions to problems.
See, I have a
Lightning flashed, thunder crashed and Nathan Torkington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> whi
spered:
| Here's a program I use to count messages in my mailfile:
This is quite a simple little script. The majority of the changes that are
being talked about won't ever show up in this. It'd be nice if you could
Lightning flashed, thunder crashed and Larry Wall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> whispered:
| Peter Scott writes:
| : So, I wonder aloud, do we want to signify that degree of change with a more
>
| : dramatic change in the name?
|
| I'm inclined to think that people will be more likely to migrate if
| the
