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From:
H.Merijn Brand
Date:
August 23, 2009 08:31
Subject:
Re: 5.10.1 is released
Message ID:
20090823173131.6eb8ea9a@pc09.procura.nl
On Sun, 23 Aug 2009 15:40:50 +0100, Dave Mitchell <davem@iabyn.com>
wrote:
> 'Briefly, sir, I am the Permanent Under-Secretary of State, known as
> the Permanent Secretary. Woolley here is your Principal Private
> Secretary. I, too, have a Principal Private Secretary, and he is the
> Principal Private Secretary to the Permanent Secretary. Directly
> responsible to me are ten Deputy Secretaries, eighty-seven Under
> Secretaries and two hundred and nineteen Assistant Secretaries.
> Directly responsible to the Principal Private Secretaries are plain
> Private Secretaries. The Prime Minister will be appointing two
> Parliamentary Under-Secretaries and you will be appointing your own
> Parliamentary Private Secretary.'
>
> 'Can they all type?' I joked.
>
> 'None of us can type, Minister,' replied Sir Humphrey smoothly. 'Mrs
> McKay types - she is your Secretary.'
>
> I couldn't tell whether or not he was joking. 'What a pity,' I said.
> 'We could have opened an agency.'
>
> Sir Humphrey and Bernard laughed. 'Very droll, sir,' said Sir
> Humphrey. 'Most amusing, sir,' said Bernard. Were they genuinely
> amused at my wit, or just being rather patronising? 'I suppose they
> all say that, do they?' I ventured.
>
> Sir Humphrey reassured me on that. 'Certainly not, Minister,' he
> replied. 'Not quite all.'
>
> [p14 _The complete Yes Minister // The Diaries of a Cabinet Minister by
> the Right Hon. James Hacker MP._ 1 "Open Government" ]
>
> Currently it's at
>
> http://www.iabyn.com/tmp/perl-5.10.1.tar.bz2
> https://pause.perl.org/pub/PAUSE/authors/id/D/DA/DAPM/perl-5.10.1.tar.bz2
>
> But presumably it will be at
>
> http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-authors/id/D/DA/DAPM/perl-5.10.1.tar.bz2
Hurray, Hurray!
perl5 isn't dead!
> once it's had time to propagate to CPAN's mirrors, so don't publicise the
> first two URLs.
>
> A .gz version also available for the decompressionally challenged.
--
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