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- From: an388@anon.penet.fi
- Subject: Re: ARE ALL ANONS JERKS?????
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.044413.21171@fuug.fi>
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- References: <1993Jan24.213859.9101@fuug.fi>
- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 04:33:54 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan25.190903.1670@netlabs.com> lwall@netlabs.com writes:
- >In article <1993Jan24.213859.9101@fuug.fi> an388@anon.penet.fi writes:
- >: Strange comments, coming from somebody whose e-mail address comes
- >: up "nobody" when you try to do a reply! Knowing that little
- >: oddity, the additional fact that "perl" is a programming
- >: language, and "Dan" is a loose extract from the first name of one
- >: of perl's authors, one has to wonder.
- >
- >One has to wonder who does your research. The only people I can think
- >of offhand who have contributed significant amounts of code to Perl are
- >
- > Larry Wall
- > Henry Spencer
- > Chris Kingsley
- > Chip Salzenberg
- >
- I should have said one of the authors of the perl programming
- book, ie. Randal L. Schwartz. Randal -> Dan, sort of.
- >Some people might also dispute your assertion that Perl is a
- >programming language, but I'll let that one go... :-)
- >
- Well, the first line of the book, other than the TOC, says "Perl
- is a language ..." And the word "programming" appears quite
- frequently. But, I haven't seen both words together when
- referring to perl. But I guess you're entitled ...
- >Larry Wall
- >lwall@netlabs.com
-
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