On Sun, Dec 17, 2006 at 03:02:34PM +, Robert Rothenberg wrote:
> Why does any discussion about programming languages eventually degenerate
> into bickering about Perl?
Because it's an easy target and so attracts the vast majority that are
poor shots.
--
David Cantrell | London Perl Mongers
On Mon, Dec 18, 2006 at 08:00:25PM +, Jonathan Stowe wrote:
>
> The real windows hate would be that it doesn't tell you which program it
> is that has the file open, nor provide any tools out of the box that
> would help you find that out, but hey it least it has an API that can do
> that reas
On Sun, Dec 17, 2006 at 02:44:29AM +0100, A. Pagaltzis wrote:
> No longer, if you ask it not to; although I wish they hadn't
> fixed that because the mere concept of English.pm is an
> abomination.
So I take it you don't want me to release French.pm then?
> > I could go on, getting in to the sor
On Dec 19, 2006, at 6:20 PM, Patrick Carr wrote:
And then the helpful and repetitive error messages from Jet take over
until you can manage to kick the power cord out of the wall.
You know why they call it "jet"?
It's the only database engine that sucks and blows at the same time.
On Dec 19, 2006, at 5:26 PM, Joshua Rodman wrote:
On Tue, Dec 19, 2006 at 02:22:40PM -0800,
jrod...@hate.spamportal.net wrote:
2) Create the file write-only, and cross your fingers.
Duh. I really meant read-only here.
Clearly you were confused following the long discussion of everyone's
On Tue, Dec 19, 2006 at 05:27:59PM -0600, Peter da Silva wrote:
> > cause a file to be removed, or removed right away. This matters when
> > you are out of disk space, and so perhaps I am unsympathetic because I
> > have never been out of disk space. Otherwise, I think it doesn't really
> > matte
> cause a file to be removed, or removed right away. This matters when
> you are out of disk space, and so perhaps I am unsympathetic because I
> have never been out of disk space. Otherwise, I think it doesn't really
> matter, and offers a lot of benefits.
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