Perl is worse! (was: Python is Wierd!)

[Ben Wolfson]

On Fri, 28 Jul 2000 15:28:57 GMT, grey at despair.rpglink.com (Steve Lamb)
wrote:

>On Fri, 28 Jul 2000 09:14:31 GMT, Ben Wolfson <rumjuggler at cryptarchy.org>
>wrote:
>>If I type 1, I think "integer".  Sorry.  This is true outside the realm of
>>programming.  If I'm talking to someone online and I want to express the
>>idea of a string containing the character '1', I will write "1" or '1'.
>
>    Is it?  How many non-programmers would do that?  You do it only because
>you are a programmer who is used to catagorizing data into different types.    

Actually that's completely untrue, because I did that before I started
programming.

-- 
Barnabas T. Rumjuggler

Who is general Pao, and why are we eating his chicken?
 -- possibly Legion, in one o' dem wacky-ass Wildcard books