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Did anyone else crack up when Larry Wall described python with the
statement:

Python, as the "anti-Perl," is heavily invested in maintaining Order.

In the state of the onion address?

http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2006/09/21/onion.html

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> Did anyone else crack up when Larry Wall described python with the
> statement:
>
> Python, as the "anti-Perl," is heavily invested in maintaining Order.
>
> In the state of the onion address?
>
> http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2006/09/21/onion.html

There is also this:
'But I think the basic Perl paradigm is "Whatever-oriented programming."'

Terry Reedy wrote:
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>>Did anyone else crack up when Larry Wall described python with the
>>statement:
>>
>>Python, as the "anti-Perl," is heavily invested in maintaining Order.
>>
>>In the state of the onion address?
>>
>>http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2006/09/21/onion.html
>
>
> There is also this:
> 'But I think the basic Perl paradigm is "Whatever-oriented programming."'

This reminds me of when I realized I could become more efficeint as
stocker in a warehouse by implementing a "wherever inventory system".

James

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James Stroud
UCLA-DOE Institute for Genomics and Proteomics
Box 951570
Los Angeles, CA 90095

http://www.jamesstroud.com/

wrote:
> Did anyone else crack up when Larry Wall described python with the
> statement:
>
> Python, as the "anti-Perl," is heavily invested in maintaining Order.
>
> In the state of the onion address?
>
> http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2006/09/21/onion.html

-3 on QOTW !
The whole article is as he describes it in the opening paragraph, a
rambling strole through whatever took his fancy . Of no great weight
and so the -3.
Good luck to Larry on Perl 6 though.

James Stroud wrote:
> Terry Reedy wrote:
> > <> wrote in message
> > news: ups.com...
> >
> >>Did anyone else crack up when Larry Wall described python with the
> >>statement:
> >>
> >>Python, as the "anti-Perl," is heavily invested in maintaining Order.
> >>
> >>In the state of the onion address?
> >>
> >>http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2006/09/21/onion.html
> >
> >
> > There is also this:
> > 'But I think the basic Perl paradigm is "Whatever-oriented programming."'
>
> This reminds me of when I realized I could become more efficeint as
> stocker in a warehouse by implementing a "wherever inventory system".

Was fetching the items stocked someone else's job?

>
> James
>
> --
> James Stroud
> UCLA-DOE Institute for Genomics and Proteomics
> Box 951570
> Los Angeles, CA 90095
>
> http://www.jamesstroud.com/

wrote:
> Did anyone else crack up when Larry Wall described python with the
> statement:
>
> Python, as the "anti-Perl," is heavily invested in maintaining Order.

Perl? Larry who?

(I've been going to a hypnotherapist who specializes in erasing bad
memories of the past, sorry.)


> In the state of the onion address?
>
> http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2006/09/21/onion.html

In article <mailman.473.1158948412.10491.python->,
"Terry Reedy" <> wrote:

> <> wrote in message
> news: ups.com...
> > Did anyone else crack up when Larry Wall described python with the
> > statement:
> >
> > Python, as the "anti-Perl," is heavily invested in maintaining Order.
> >
> > In the state of the onion address?
> >
> > http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2006/09/21/onion.html
>
> There is also this:
> 'But I think the basic Perl paradigm is "Whatever-oriented programming."'

But what this really means, in practise, is "dis-oriented programming."

-M

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Michael J. Fromberger | Lecturer, Dept. of Computer Science
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~sting/ | Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, USA

Michael J. Fromberger wrote:
> In article <mailman.473.1158948412.10491.python->,
> "Terry Reedy" <> wrote:
>
>> <> wrote in message
>> news: ups.com...
>> > Did anyone else crack up when Larry Wall described python with the
>> > statement:
>> >
>> > Python, as the "anti-Perl," is heavily invested in maintaining Order.
>> >
>> > In the state of the onion address?
>> >
>> > http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2006/09/21/onion.html
>>
>> There is also this:
>> 'But I think the basic Perl paradigm is "Whatever-oriented programming."'
>
> But what this really means, in practise, is "dis-oriented programming."

I think now we got our QOTW.

Georg

wrote:
> Did anyone else crack up when Larry Wall described python with the
> statement:
>
> Python, as the "anti-Perl," is heavily invested in maintaining Order.
>
> In the state of the onion address?
>
> http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2006/09/21/onion.html

Think he's just too charming. I never got through Larrys whole
apocalypse. A little weirdness like this one is a great piece but too
much of it is insane.