+1 QOTW

[olsongt@verizon.net]

Did anyone else crack up when Larry Wall described python with the
statement:

Python, as the "anti-Perl," is heavily invested in maintaining Order.

In the state of the onion address?

http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2006/09/21/onion.html

[Terry Reedy]

Re: +1 QOTW


<olsongt@verizo n.netwrote in message
news:1158942909 .066705.245650@ e3g2000cwe.goog legroups.com...

Did anyone else crack up when Larry Wall described python with the
statement:
>
Python, as the "anti-Perl," is heavily invested in maintaining Order.
>
In the state of the onion address?
>
http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2006/09/21/onion.html

There is also this:
'But I think the basic Perl paradigm is "Whatever-oriented programming."'

[James Stroud]

Re: +1 QOTW

Terry Reedy wrote:

<olsongt@verizo n.netwrote in message
news:1158942909 .066705.245650@ e3g2000cwe.goog legroups.com...
>

>>Did anyone else crack up when Larry Wall described python with the
>>statement:
>>
>>Python, as the "anti-Perl," is heavily invested in maintaining Order.
>>
>>In the state of the onion address?
>>
>>http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2006/09/21/onion.html

>
>
There is also this:
'But I think the basic Perl paradigm is "Whatever-oriented programming."'

This reminds me of when I realized I could become more efficeint as
stocker in a warehouse by implementing a "wherever inventory system".

James

--
James Stroud
UCLA-DOE Institute for Genomics and Proteomics
Box 951570
Los Angeles, CA 90095

http://www.jamesstroud.com/

[Paddy]

Re: +1 QOTW


olsongt@verizon .net wrote:

Did anyone else crack up when Larry Wall described python with the
statement:
>
Python, as the "anti-Perl," is heavily invested in maintaining Order.
>
In the state of the onion address?
>
http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2006/09/21/onion.html

-3 on QOTW !
The whole article is as he describes it in the opening paragraph, a
rambling strole through whatever took his fancy . Of no great weight
and so the -3.
Good luck to Larry on Perl 6 though.

[mensanator@aol.com]

Re: +1 QOTW


James Stroud wrote:

Terry Reedy wrote:

<olsongt@verizo n.netwrote in message
news:1158942909 .066705.245650@ e3g2000cwe.goog legroups.com...

>Did anyone else crack up when Larry Wall described python with the
>statement:
>
>Python, as the "anti-Perl," is heavily invested in maintaining Order.
>
>In the state of the onion address?
>
>http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2006/09/21/onion.html

There is also this:
'But I think the basic Perl paradigm is "Whatever-oriented programming."'

>
This reminds me of when I realized I could become more efficeint as
stocker in a warehouse by implementing a "wherever inventory system".

Was fetching the items stocked someone else's job?

>
James
>
--
James Stroud
UCLA-DOE Institute for Genomics and Proteomics
Box 951570
Los Angeles, CA 90095
>
http://www.jamesstroud.com/

[Ray]

Re: +1 QOTW


olsongt@verizon .net wrote:

Did anyone else crack up when Larry Wall described python with the
statement:
>
Python, as the "anti-Perl," is heavily invested in maintaining Order.

Perl? Larry who?

(I've been going to a hypnotherapist who specializes in erasing bad
memories of the past, sorry.)

In the state of the onion address?
>
http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2006/09/21/onion.html

[Michael J. Fromberger]

Re: +1 QOTW

In article <mailman.473.11 58948412.10491. python-list@python.org >,
"Terry Reedy" <tjreedy@udel.e duwrote:

<olsongt@verizo n.netwrote in message
news:1158942909 .066705.245650@ e3g2000cwe.goog legroups.com...

Did anyone else crack up when Larry Wall described python with the
statement:

Python, as the "anti-Perl," is heavily invested in maintaining Order.

In the state of the onion address?

http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2006/09/21/onion.html

>
There is also this:
'But I think the basic Perl paradigm is "Whatever-oriented programming."'

But what this really means, in practise, is "dis-oriented programming."

-M

--
Michael J. Fromberger | Lecturer, Dept. of Computer Science
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~sting/ | Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, USA

[Georg Brandl]

Re: +1 QOTW

Michael J. Fromberger wrote:

In article <mailman.473.11 58948412.10491. python-list@python.org >,
"Terry Reedy" <tjreedy@udel.e duwrote:
>

><olsongt@veriz on.netwrote in message
>news:115894290 9.066705.245650 @e3g2000cwe.goo glegroups.com.. .

Did anyone else crack up when Larry Wall described python with the
statement:
>
Python, as the "anti-Perl," is heavily invested in maintaining Order.
>
In the state of the onion address?
>
http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2006/09/21/onion.html

>>
>There is also this:
>'But I think the basic Perl paradigm is "Whatever-oriented programming."'

>
But what this really means, in practise, is "dis-oriented programming."

I think now we got our QOTW.

Georg

[Kay Schluehr]

Re: +1 QOTW

olsongt@verizon .net wrote:

Did anyone else crack up when Larry Wall described python with the
statement:
>
Python, as the "anti-Perl," is heavily invested in maintaining Order.
>
In the state of the onion address?
>
http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2006/09/21/onion.html

Think he's just too charming. I never got through Larrys whole
apocalypse. A little weirdness like this one is a great piece but too
much of it is insane.