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Re: perl is offensive



On 16-Mar-2002 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.
> 

death to the $.  This unfortunately means forcing JoeyH to program in tcl again.



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