Perl is worse!

[Steve Lamb]

On Sun, 30 Jul 2000 15:17:40 +0200, Alex Martelli <alex at magenta.com> wrote:
>So Joshua has it exactly right: you find it *offensive* that people
>consider 'automagic' (wild-ass-guessing by the system, based on
>insufficient or ambiguous context) a technically inferior approach
>to do-what-I-tell-you-DON'T-silently-second-guess-me?!  And you
>think that if people express this technical judgment, this justifies
>your being rude about them?!

    No, I don't mind them finding it an inferior approach, I mind them using
the term as a term of spite for a language.  If I minded their opinions that
would be wrong.

>would appear that a courteous apology is in order.

    To those that didn't use it in a spiteful manner, yes, I do apologize.  It
was wrong of me to make a broad generalization like that.

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