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

[Steve Lamb]

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.    

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