Re: virii

[ben <benfoley@rcn.com>]

On Sunday 28 July 2002 07:34 am, Richard Cobbe wrote:
> Thatcher Ulrich <tu@tulrich.com> writes:
> > * Richard Cobbe <cobbe@airmail.net>:
> > >  So, we've got a complicated, ill-designed language, implemented by
> > > folks who are more swayed by hype than by solid technical and logical
> > > reasoning. Sounds like a winner to me!  (<sound of Richard retching in
> > > the corner>)
> >
> > 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.

ben


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