Re: virii

[Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>]

On Fri, 2002-07-26 at 12:06, Craig Dickson wrote:
> Tom Massey wrote:
> 
> > Remember that Larry Wall tends
> > to see himself as a linguist before anything else - that's
> > actually all you need to know to understand Perl.
> 
> Interestingly, he has never published any papers in any professional
> linguistics journal, seems never to have taught the subjet at any

Do I detect a bit of snobbery here?

> accredited university, and a genuine Stanford linguist of my
> acquaintance who is also a programmer regards Perl as an absolute
> horror.

This linguist/programmer must *love* python...

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