Re: perl is offensive
On Sat, Mar 16, 2002 at 10:37:30PM +0000, Matthew Wilcox 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.
Note:
Debian Jr. contains python (in junior-programming).
Debian Jr. does *not* contain perl.
Ben
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