Perl is worse!

Joshua Macy amused at webamused.com
Sat Jul 29 11:49:00 EDT 2000


William Tanksley wrote:
> 
> 
> You consider "automagic" an insult?  I've never HEARD of such a thing.
> Please at least *inform* us before you take offence.  Note that your
> "taking offence" (which included an accusation that the entire Python
> community was a disgrace to the language they support) paragraph was not
> anywhere NEAR to any use of the word "automagic", so left no possibility
> of figuring out why you were offended.
> 
> 

  I could be wrong, but I'm under the strong impression that the term
"automagic" is thrown around repeatedly as a description of Perl's
behavior in Programming Perl.  Does that make Larry Wall a disgrace to
the language he invented?

  Joshua



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