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- From: sharon@netlabs.com (Sharon Hopkins)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
- Subject: Re: # of files in directory
- Keywords: Files, Perl, Directory, ls
- Message-ID: <1992Jul24.163117.5494@cheshire.oxy.edu>
- Date: 24 Jul 92 16:31:17 GMT
- References: <1992Jul23.211249.21744@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> <1992Jul23.225715.21531@news.eng.convex.com> <1992Jul24.153838.29143@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>
- Sender: jason@cheshire.oxy.edu (Jason Fudenberg)
- Reply-To: sharon@netlabs.com (Sharon Hopkins)
- Organization: Netlabs, Inc.
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- In article <1992Jul24.153838.29143@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> bobd@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Bob DeBula) writes:
- >In article <1992Jul23.225715.21531@news.eng.convex.com> tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen) writes:
- >>Sigh, pretty as it sounds, I lament to inform you that penultimate doesn't
- >>mean more than ultimate. Ultimate often means last in modern dialects of
- >>Latin. Penultimate means second to the last, and antepenultimate means
- >>third to the last.
- >
- >[...]
- >Of course, "penultimate" in my intended usage has about as much meaning
- >as "new improved super infinity" or "infinity to the infinite power",
- >but that was my intention. :-) :-)
- >
- >I guess I could live with conceding that it might have some
- >infinitesimal pointfulness (or be slightly less pointless than
- >something else) in order to keep the name the "Penultimately
- >Pointless PERL Programming Problem".
-
- Since no potential perl problem could possibly be as pointless as producing
- parse-able perl poetry, "penultimate" is probably proper. :-)
-
- print "Just another Perl poet,"
-
- --Sharon Hopkins
- sharon@netlabs.com
-
- "As to the pure mind all things are pure, so to the poetic mind
- all things are poetical." -- Longfellow
-