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

From:
Mark Mielke
Date:
February 10, 2000 09:02
Subject:
Re: should "use byte" be "use bytes"?
Message ID:
20000210120318.C5765@pcard12x.ca.nortel.com
On Thu, Feb 10, 2000 at 09:52:46AM -0700, "Tom Christiansen" wrote:
> >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.

Which part of that is incorrect?

> And then, just to add the final icing of insensate disrespect, he
> appends a quindecimally lined signature.  Bah.
> --tom

Sometimes I wonder if you have ever experienced happiness.

mark


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