Wassercrats::Improved Volume 0, Number 0

[revdiablo]

WASSERCRATS IMPROVED

Welcome to the first and only edition of Wassercrats::Improved. You say we like your ideas and we'd like to see more than one at a time? Well, you're wrong.

You might have guessed that I'm replying once and only once, because I usually don't like wasting my time with trolls. This is sad. My post mocks Wassercrats.

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In This Issue:

Silly Critique: File tests
Ridiculous Critique: Perl's zero-based numbering scheme
Saddening Perlmonks Posts

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Silly Critique

File tests are modeled after the ones used by most shell programmers, via the test command, otherwise known as [. This is extremely convenient, and make doing common file tests very easy. Perhaps there could be a case made for synonyms that are spelled out, but I wouldn't want to use them.

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Ridiculous Critique

Many languages start their indexes at 0. I would venture to say this is the rule, not the exception. I can't say for sure, not having done an exhaustive survey of programming languages, but my gut feel tells me it's correct. Moreover, the 0-based index has been around for so long, changing it at this point would be insane.

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Saddening Perlmonks Posts

The fact that you are proud of your amazingly bad post drives the nail in the coffin. At one time, I just thought you were ill-informed and annoyingly naive. Now I know you're simply a troll. I wish you would stop wasting our time, but I know you won't. This makes me extrodinarily sad.