On Fri, 2006-11-24 at 13:12 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 11/24/06 11:54, Jon Dowland wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 24, 2006 at 08:25:27AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > >> On 11/24/06 06:06, Jon Dowland wrote: > >>> I think that having the shell re-implement netcat to be > >>> a violation of "do one thing and do it well". > >> Hmmm. A large, complicated shell like bash broke that > >> stricture long ago, no? > > > > Absolutely: but that doesn't give it a free licence to > > continue doing so :) > > Sure it does. How long ago did Perl stop being just a Practical > Extraction and Report Language? Ron, please stop that urban legend. Perl is Perl not P.E.R.L as you say. I have been corrected for saying that, by more than one Perl Monk, also by Mr. Wall. Perl is Perl. It has no meaning other than Perl. -- greg, greg@gregfolkert.net The technology that is Stronger, better, faster: Linux
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