Re: virii

[Richard Cobbe <cobbe@airmail.net>]

ben <benfoley@rcn.com> writes:

> On Sunday 28 July 2002 07:34 am, Richard Cobbe wrote:
> > Thatcher Ulrich <tu@tulrich.com> writes:

> > > And yet, Perl is wildly successful.  Maybe Perl's design choices aren't
> > > so misguided?
> >
> > And yet, Windows is wildly successful.  Maybe Windows's design choices
> > aren't so misguided?
> >
> [snip]
> >
> > So, yeah, Perl is pretty successful.  This is due more, IMO, to market
> > forces than to technical superiority.  
> 
> i think the world should know about perl's monopoly on the island you're 
> living on.

Never claimed Perl had a monopoly; I was only trying to demonstrate that
popularity often has little to do with technical quality.

Richard


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