Larry Wall & Cults

[Dr. Richard E. Hawkins]

In article <412dfc1c$0$65599$a1866201 at newsreader.visi.com>,
Grant Edwards  <grante at visi.com> wrote:
>On 2004-08-26, Sara <genericax at hotmail.com> wrote:

>> Hey this ain't no CULT! Our creedo is simply:

>>    "Larry said it, I believe it, THAT settles it!"

>> If you don't believe it just look at the reaction if any questions any
>> element of Perl design!

>Over here in c.l.python, it's more like

>   "Guido said it, that settles it, but we're going to discuss
>    it endlessly and and vote on it using six or seven
>    different voting algorithms anyway.  Then we'll argue about
>    the voting algorithms."

Now I understand what happenend in the 2000 election:  Al Gore, after
inventing the internet, became a python programmer :)

hawk
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