Re: perl is offensive

[Russell Coker <russell@coker.com.au>]

On Sun, 17 Mar 2002 11:30, Josip Rodin wrote:
> 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.

I find unreliable mail servers offensive.

Let's block Lazarus from sending mail to any of our mailing lists or BTS 
addresses to stop people like me from being offended by that broken mail 
server.

Anyone who can't run a reliable mail server can use hotmail, there is no 
excuse for using an unreliable mail server.

I am not joking.

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