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On Fri, Nov 19, 1999 at 01:52:57PM -0500, ajm6q@virginia.edu wrote:
> On Fri, 19 Nov 1999, Tom Christiansen wrote:
> > >What makes you expect this?
> >
> > History. Culture. Precedent. Sanity.
>
> Not documentation?
>
> Can't Tom and Ilya agree to disagree?
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Do not suggest this. This road leads to hell even faster than our
current trajectory.
> Can't Ilya be ignored when it's
> worth ignoring? Why does Tom spend so much time and energy putting down
> the irrational or hasty thoughts and ideas of others, when we can all
> judge for ourselves what's good and what's crud? Is Perl 100%
> deterministic as Ilya seems to think all real programming languages are?
> Nah, but who the hell cares? Oh, I guess "real programmers". I'm happy
> not to be a "real programmer" then, or I guess only a "real programmer"
> when I program in C. And of course, Tom cares, because after all, Ilya
> said something out loud.
Yes.
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