+1 QOTW

[Michael J. Fromberger]

In article <mailman.473.1158948412.10491.python-list at python.org>,
 "Terry Reedy" <tjreedy at udel.edu> wrote:

> <olsongt at verizon.net> wrote in message 
> news:1158942909.066705.245650 at e3g2000cwe.googlegroups.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

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