[oclug] Why Perl is a Bad Language

Francis Pinteric linuxdoctor at yahoo.com
Mon Feb 26 10:32:46 EST 2001


--- "Michael P. Soulier" <msoulier at storm.ca> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 22, 2001 at 12:54:04PM -0800, Francis Pinteric wrote:
> > Which reminds me of a quote from Martin Luther. When asked why he
> had
> > made changes and expurgations from the Bible in his translations,
> his
> > reply was that "it is the way God had originally intended it to
> be."
> > 
> > He was German too.
> 
>     Yeah, I recall another German with some really radical views
> too. He was
> quite charismatic and people flocked about him from miles around. I
> hear he
> finally committed suicide in '45 though. I couldn't agree with his
> views
> either. I've never been able to agree with fanatics. It must be the
> English,
> Irish, Scottish, Welch, Penselvania Dutch, French Canadian in me.

Yes, non-fanatics like Cromwell, Cranmer, Richard III and so forth. 

> I do like German cars though. ;-)

Me too. Owned one build by the company whose founder was originally
the guy who built of cars for the little failed Austrian artist who
was a corporal in the German army during the First World War who
mentioned in your previous observations above.

>>>--fja->

=====
There are no stupid questions, but there are a LOT of inquisitive idiots.

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