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- From: mcook@fendahl.dev.cdx.mot.com (Michael Cook)
- Subject: Re: system() vs exec()
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- Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 23:58:08 GMT
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- ram@eiffel.com (Raphael Manfredi) writes:
-
- >>According to mcook@fendahl.dev.cdx.mot.com (Michael Cook):
- >>>Besides, you've used @_ after you used local(). That's a Perl no-no.
-
- [...]
-
- >(Note: this is an implementation problem, not a conceptual one. I pointed that
- >out to Michael in private e-mail and he replied that (paraphrasing) Perl
- >was 'practical', not conceptual.)
-
- What, you disagree? There are many examples in Perl, perl, perL and PeRl
- where things don't work the way you might think. A big part of learning to
- program in Perl is learning what *not* to do. Of course, many languages have
- this property. (I said this in a private e-mail to Raphael...but who really
- cares?)
-
- Michael.
-