subarashii! eigo no kotoba = "wonderful!"
"Coding in Ruby" to the tune of "Turning Japanese" by The Vapors
with endless apologies to everyone involved.
creativity! at last! actually, i'm all smiles (^_^)
I've got your tarball, I've got your tarball
I'm milling over installing it myself
Johan Vromans [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
John Porter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
As someone else said before me, Perl should not be changed
Just Because We Can. Aspects which have proven usefulness and
are deeply engrained in the Perl mindset should not be tampered
with just because some recent
On Sat, Feb 17 2001 09:04:54 -0800, Simon Cozens wrote:
On Sat, Feb 17, 2001 at 08:02:08AM -0800, yaphet jones wrote:
the tchrist (christiansen) said it best, when he described perl5:
...an "expert-friendly" language...
And he was right. Perl is *not* deliberately dumbed down, becau
Johan Vromans wrote:
If a Perl construct does not suffer from a slight change that makes
it easier to accept by new programmers, I think such changes should
be seriously considered.
Yes; but the world if full of language [sorry, couldn't resist]
which is optimized (or at least meant to be)
Feeding the troll:
careful with the troll talk: remember, your god's favorite book
is the "lord of the rings"...chock full of trolls...and hobbits, too!
= example 2: ruby
= now more popular than python in its native japan
Python isn't native to Japan.
obviously, nitwit...ruby is the
gentlemen (a small liberty, i admit) -
all of this *pointless* debate could be set aside - if all of you
would just renounce perl - and adopt ruby as your language
it's why larry has shut himself up in silence - feigning illness:
*true (not bolted-on) oo language
*modern (not