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Re: should "use byte" be "use bytes"?

From:
Larry Wall
Date:
February 10, 2000 09:00
Subject:
Re: should "use byte" be "use bytes"?
Message ID:
200002101656.IAA02724@kiev.wall.org
Tom Christiansen writes:
: >I thought it was a valid viewpoint, though incomplete.  
: 
: It is virtually impossible to pay attention to any alleged validity
: of what someone is saying when they have peppered their missive
: with gratuitous and wholly ad-hominem landmines such as:
: 
:      I really hate it when you sit back in your chair and tell
:      people that a feature shouldn't be added to perl because "that
:      would be hard to teach my students." Stupid arguments like
:      that, and now the recent "it's easier to type and say." Pure
:      bullshit.
: 
: And then, just to add the final icing of insensate disrespect, he
: appends a quindecimally lined signature.  Bah.

Let him who is without shit cast the first turd.

Larry



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