( 2.31.New operators: 'eq', 'ne', 'last', '..' ) ?

[Dennis Lee Bieber]

On Wed, 19 Jan 2000 14:33:06 -0700, Mike Steed <MSteed at altiris.com>
declaimed the following in comp.lang.python:


> Seminar posters.  I think that's what we're seeing.  They attend seminars
> where they are carefully taught how to write posts that distract and annoy
> the readers of the target news group/mailing list/whatever.  The seminars,
> of course, are sponsored by vast conspiracies that aim to popularize severe
> hackery in its various forms, such as four-letter languages beginning with
> P.
> 
> Okay, I'm kidding, don't get upset.

	May not be that far off... New semester at Universities --
students taking language design courses or similar and trying to
simplify their lives by making all languages look the same... (Isn't
that the problem PL/1 had -- incorporating features from everywhere?)

	Now there is a scary thought... a dialect of FORTRAN with PERL
notation...

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