In article <v3leq9$2iqo$3@dont-email.me>,
Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:
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Whenever somebody mentions Awk, I immediately think Perl does
everything that Awk does, just as concisely, and more besides.

Whenever I hear someone puff up Perl, I want to throw up.

Seriously, you almost never hear AWK advocacy - because there is no point
in it - we know we have the easier to use and more legible product - but
you very often see Perl people say stuff like the above quoted text. That
fact is very telling.

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"He is exactly as they taught in KGB school: an egoist, a liar, but talented - he
knows the mind of the wrestling-loving, under-educated, authoritarian-admiring white male populous."
- Malcolm Nance, p59. -

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with <v3lmk4$1q2k7$1@news.xmission.com> Kenny McCormack wrote:

In article <v3leq9$2iqo$3@dont-email.me>,
Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:

*SKIP* [ 2 lines 2 levels deep]

Whenever I hear someone puff up Perl, I want to throw up.

You understand that any 'puff up Perl' is a troll, don't you? Mission accomplished then.

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Torvalds' goal for Linux is very simple: World Domination
Stallman's goal for GNU is even simpler: Freedom

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