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  • Re: I did not inhale

    From Johanne Fairchild@jfairchild@tudado.org to comp.unix.shell,comp.unix.programmer,comp.lang.misc on Fri Apr 12 20:52:29 2024
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    Kaz Kylheku <643-408-1753@kylheku.com> writes:

    On 2024-04-12, Kenny McCormack <gazelle@shell.xmission.com> wrote:
    In article <uvbe3m$2cun7$1@dont-email.me>,
    Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> wrote:
    ...
    I've programmed in Perl but I'm no Perl-programmer notwithstanding.

    That's like saying "Yeah, I've had sex with men, but that don't make gay..."

    I've programmed so little in Perl in such distant nineties, that
    it's analogous to only having seen the shower scene in /Midnight Express/.

    I programmed in Perl to filter log files, but then I got to The AWK
    Programming Language book. Sadly, I never wrote another Perl. I don't
    think I do very well with sophisticated languages. I feel I need a
    single reasonable way of doing things.
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  • From ram@ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) to comp.unix.shell,comp.unix.programmer,comp.lang.misc on Sat Apr 13 08:18:07 2024
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    Johanne Fairchild <jfairchild@tudado.org> wrote or quoted:
    I programmed in Perl to filter log files, but then I got to The AWK >Programming Language book. Sadly, I never wrote another Perl. I don't
    think I do very well with sophisticated languages. I feel I need a
    single reasonable way of doing things.

    Perl:

    The motto of the Perl community is, "There's More Than One Way
    To Do It," or TMTOWDI (pronounced "Tim Toady").

    Python:

    There should be one - and preferably only one - obvious way
    to do it. Although that way may not be obvious at first unless
    you're Dutch.
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  • From Johanne Fairchild@jfairchild@tudado.org to comp.unix.shell,comp.unix.programmer,comp.lang.misc on Sat Apr 13 08:17:31 2024
    From Newsgroup: comp.lang.misc

    ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) writes:

    Johanne Fairchild <jfairchild@tudado.org> wrote or quoted:
    I programmed in Perl to filter log files, but then I got to The AWK
    Programming Language book. Sadly, I never wrote another Perl. I
    don't
    think I do very well with sophisticated languages. I feel I need a
    single reasonable way of doing things.

    Perl:

    The motto of the Perl community is, "There's More Than One Way
    To Do It," or TMTOWDI (pronounced "Tim Toady").

    Python:

    There should be one - and preferably only one - obvious way
    to do it. Although that way may not be obvious at first unless
    you're Dutch.

    Why Dutch? Unless I understand Guido van Rossum very well? :)
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  • From ram@ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) to comp.unix.shell,comp.unix.programmer,comp.lang.misc on Sat Apr 13 11:40:49 2024
    From Newsgroup: comp.lang.misc

    Johanne Fairchild <jfairchild@tudado.org> wrote or quoted: >ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) writes:
    There should be one - and preferably only one - obvious way
    to do it. Although that way may not be obvious at first unless
    you're Dutch.
    Why Dutch? Unless I understand Guido van Rossum very well? :)

    Sometimes, there seem to be some choices how to do something in
    Python.
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