Nathan Torkington writes: > Larry Wall writes: > > And frankly, Perl is a blue-collar language, and a bit into populism, > > and so I'll tend to favor blue-collar words over white-collar, all > > other things being equal, which they never, ever are, for a language > > designer. > > I'm not puckering up when I say this, but Larry just said exactly what > has been preying on my mind all day. Perl users aren't standards > implementors, they're day-to-day hackers for whom the word "byte" is > familiar and "octet" exotic. Good, I can stop hacking Perl, then :-) > Nat -- $jhi++; # http://www.iki.fi/jhi/ # There is this special biologist word we use for 'stable'. # It is 'dead'. -- Jack Cohen