OT: The Straight Dope

[Charles Richmond]

Nick Vargish wrote:
> 
> Jeff Bauer <jbauer at rubic.com> writes:
> 
> > if-tim-is-sherlock-then-cecil-must-be-mycroft-ly y'rs,
> 
> Just a correction; the SD article quoted in the previous post was
> written by a Staff Reporter ("Una Persson"), not the exalted
> Cecil Adams himself.
> 
> I did think it was funny that Python was mentioned, but Perl was
> slighted -- backticks are much more common in Perl code than in
> Python code, at least in my experience.
> 
Hey, the C-shell in UNIX uses backquote also... I do *not*
know about bash, ksh, or sh.

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