At 11:27 AM 2/10/00 -0500, Mark Mielke wrote: >On Thu, Feb 10, 2000 at 08:36:24AM -0700, "Tom Christiansen" wrote: > > >Ok... let me get this straight... you are going to pick one word over > > >another because it's easier to say and easier to type. > > *ABSOLUTELY*. Welcome to Perl. > >Uhhh... no? > >I definately don't use perl because it's operators are "easy to remember", >"easy to say", or "easy to type." I use it for it's FUNCTIONALITY. One of the characteristics of a good language designer is that these things *are* considered but the end-user doesn't actually notice. It is worth a hash-out before implementing things. Dan --------------------------------------"it's like this"------------------- Dan Sugalski even samurai dan@sidhe.org have teddy bears and even teddy bears get drunk