Perl is worse!

[Grant Edwards]

On Sun, 30 Jul 2000 08:57:27 GMT, Steve Lamb <grey at despair.rpglink.com> wrote:
>On 30 Jul 2000 18:31:37 +1200, Paul Foley <see at below> wrote:
>>Isn't it?  Are you sure about that?
>
>    Considering some of the conversations I've sat in on with
>my friends, no, it isn't in some contexts.  I can provide more
>examples if you /really/ want to be that intentionally obtuse.

Steve is correct.  In my experience it is not only inoffensive
in some contexts, it has a positive connotation and means
someting along the lines of what "mate" means in Australia.

I can't believe we're discussing this in a debate about Perl
vs. Python (or more abstractly, strong vs. weak typing).

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