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- From: paulp@nic.cerf.net (Paul Phillips)
- Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.www.misc,comp.lang.misc,comp.lang.perl.misc,comp.lang.c
- Subject: Re: Perl vs. C (was Re: Unix or NT? Get a Mac!)
- Date: 5 Jan 1996 01:05:56 GMT
- Organization: http://www.primus.com/staff/paulp/useless.html
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- In article <4chkdn$a5j@hecate.umd.edu> me@ram.org writes:
- >Duh. If you are implying that since EVERYBODY found it funny it means
- >that Perl would make it far too easy, then I think you have serious
- >problems with thinking logically. I'd have laughed too, if someone
- >had asked that, and probably for exactly the opposite reason.
-
- Um, I was there, I think I know the context a bit more clearly than you.
- One of the officials answered the question with something like "sorry,
- we're not going to make it that easy for you," but that was clear to most
- everyone beforehand.
-
- And if you would have *laughed* at the idea that Perl would make it
- easier, then you just found a more left field than the leftmost field
- I had previously thought available.
-
- -PSP
-
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