warrior geeks

Delaney, Timothy tdelaney at avaya.com
Mon Mar 26 19:44:48 EST 2001


> > This is a Good Thing(TM). I think a lot of people in the US 
> don't realise
> > that the "right to bear arms" was devised when "arms" were 
> single-shot
> > weapons and the US was attempting to secede from England. A 
> lot of the
> > attitude of Americans really scares me. I'd much rather be 
> here with our
> > multitude of venomous creatures than in the US. We've got 
> anti-venine for
> > almost every venom in almost every hospital in Australia. There's no
> > anti-venine for a gunshot wound.
> 
> But the question is: Which of Perl versus Python is more 
> appropriate for
> shooting yourself in the foot.
> 
> At-least-that-flame-war-is-almost-on-topic 'ly yrs

That's easy. With Python you can be sure that you have shot yourself in the
foot. With Perl, you think you've *probably* shot yourself in the foot, but
due to a difficult-to-find typo you have also shot several other people in
the foot.




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