The Semicolon Wars as a software industry and human condition

[Jürgen Exner]

Iain King wrote:
> Xah Lee wrote:
>> Of interest:
>>
>> . The Semicolon Wars, by Brian Hayes. 2006.
>>  http://www.americanscientist.org/template/AssetDetail/assetid/51982
>>
>> in conjunction to this article, i recommend:
>>
>> . Software Needs Philosophers, by Steve Yegge, 2006
>> http://xahlee.org/Periodic_dosage_dir/_p/software_phil.html
>>
>> . What Languages to Hate, Xah Lee, 2002
>> http://xahlee.org/UnixResource_dir/writ/language_to_hate.html
>>
>>   Xah
>>   xah at xahlee.org
>> ? http://xahlee.org/
>
> I'm confused - I thought Xah Lee loved Perl?  Now he's bashing it?

He only loves himself.
Aside of that:


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