OT: Perl rates highly in coolness factor

[David K. Trudgett]

On Thursday 2001-07-12 at 16:50:59 -0400, Greg A. Woods wrote:

> > be used AND be adopted by new users.  I would hold out Perl as an
> > example of a tool (in this case a language) with the philosophy of
> > "There's more than one way to do it".  Enforcing one way to do it
> > is best left up to local site (project) policy.
> 
> Well, unfortunately the ugly mess that is Perl is a good example of
> why the "there's more than one way to do it" philosophy should never
> ever be mixed into one tool.  yuck!
>

May the powers that be forgive my off-topic remark, and I promise to
remain silent forevermore, but Perl is only one of the most powerful,
flexible and expressive programming languages in the world. Not to
mention one of the most readable, when written well.

foreach $wayward_soul (@perl_bashers) {
    condemn_to_using_python($wayward_soul);
    condemn_to_using_java($wayward_soul) if $particularly_non_repentent;
}

:-) Cheers

David Trudgett