Perl is worse!
Jake Speed
speed at ?.com
Fri Jul 28 19:55:33 EDT 2000
speed@?.com (Jake Speed) wrote in <so469a2go0b171 at corp.supernews.com>:
>morpheus at here.not.there (Steve Lamb) wrote in
><slrn8o449h.49c.grey at teleute.rpglink.com>:
>
>>On Fri, 28 Jul 2000 22:38:32 GMT, William Tanksley
>><wtanksle at dolphin.openprojects.net> wrote:
>>>That's a really cruel statement for you to make. I hope you were
>>>making it in jest. I've seen nothing to indicate anything waranting
>>>this kind of attack.
>>
>> Neither cruel or jest. I consider "Automagic" coversion on the same
>> vein
>>as "Winblows". I have hoped that there were people who were above that,
>>there are some, but it is here as in everywhere else.
>
>The term 'automagic' is commonly used by perl coders and porters.
Heck, even pythoners use it to describe python:
http://www.cwi.nl/www.python.org/search/hypermail/python-1994q2/0012.html
Altavista counts:
+perl +automagic* : 3,369 pages
+tcl +automagic* : 1,804 pages
+python +automagic* : 1,295 pages
+awk +automagic* : 1,083 pages
+php +automagic* : 505 pages
+guile +automagic* : 133 pages
+cheese +automagic* : 129 pages
+ruby +automagic* : 67 pages
+haskell +automagic*: 63 pages
-Speed!
(apparently, 'pork rinds' are not automagical at all)
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