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- From: ram@mbisgi.umd.edu (Ram Samudrala)
- 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!)
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- Date: 5 Jan 1996 16:01:16 GMT
- Organization: The Centre for Advanced Research in Biotechnology
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- Paul Phillips (paulp@nic.cerf.net) wrote:
-
- >Um, I was there, I think I know the context a bit more clearly than
- >you.
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- So? You clearly didn't state what the official said. You wanted the
- rest of the world and I to think that just because people laughed, it
- implied it would make it too easy. This is bad logic on your part.
-
- And I did post a problem from the ACM set, and I did post the URL for
- a bunch of problems from this time's finals (which I found are very
- similar to the regionals). What do the Perl/C gurus think of the
- problems? Will Perl really make it too easy?
-
- --Ram
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- Instead of inanely repeating the old formula "respect the law," we say,
- "Despise law and all its attributes!" In place of the cowardly phrase
- "Obey the law," our cry is "Revolt against all laws!" --Peter Kropotkin
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