+1 QOTW

Georg Brandl g.brandl-nospam at gmx.net
Sun Sep 24 14:08:24 EDT 2006


Michael J. Fromberger wrote:
> In article <mailman.473.1158948412.10491.python-list at python.org>,
>  "Terry Reedy" <tjreedy at udel.edu> wrote:
> 
>> <olsongt at verizon.net> wrote in message 
>> news:1158942909.066705.245650 at e3g2000cwe.googlegroups.com...
>> > Did anyone else crack up when Larry Wall described python with the
>> > statement:
>> >
>> > Python, as the "anti-Perl," is heavily invested in maintaining Order.
>> >
>> > In the state of the onion address?
>> >
>> > http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2006/09/21/onion.html
>> 
>> There is also this:
>> 'But I think the basic Perl paradigm is "Whatever-oriented programming."'
> 
> But what this really means, in practise, is "dis-oriented programming."

I think now we got our QOTW.

Georg



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