Re: perl is offensive

[Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr>]

On Sat, Mar 16, 2002 at 08:12:25PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
> > Manoj tells me he has proposed sanitising debian by ridding it of perl.
> > This email is to second his proposal.  I feel perl's "there's more
> > than one way to do it" attitude to be offensive and harmful to young,
> > inexperienced programmers and could seduce them down a dark path.
> > As it stands, perl is inappropriate to be on the box my brother uses.
> 
> I hope every single message like this is being Cc'ed to "Lazarus
> Long"...
> 
> There do, after all, have to penalties for wasting so many people's
> time.

Unfortunately that might only get the sender a bunch of MTA warnings
and bounces, since Lazarus Long's email servers are about as reliable
as a 90-year-old's erection.

</annoyed-owner@bugs-reader>

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