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This reminds me of an article in the very first issue of The Perl Journal, where Larry was comparing programming languages to music styles. A must read. On line at:
http://www.samag.com/documents/s=1284/sam01010002/
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Re: Re: Who is Perl? (Anthropomorphizing Everything)
by webfiend (Vicar) on May 23, 2002 at 13:23 UTC

    Thank you! I'd read that way back when (side note: notice how "way back when" could be last month or 10 years ago, depending on who says it?), and the mindset displayed in the article was what sold me on trying out Perl in the first place. I hadn't thought about that article for a long time. Actually, I'd forgotten all about it until you mentioned it.

    Sweeper++ for reminding me.

    "All you need is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure."-- Mark Twain
Re: Re: Who is Perl? (Anthropomorphizing Everything)
by Anonymous Monk on May 23, 2002 at 17:22 UTC
    yes exactly Perl is like Cartoons .... fun, clever, u can smash it in any way u want but it will restore ...it is never ending inventions ....