On Wed, 2003-08-27 at 09:17, Dave Howorth wrote: > >>> Unfortunately, nowadays "s/C /Perl /". > >>Wouldn't it be easier to read if you wrote it s/C/Perl/ ? > > So that it wouldn't change Choo-choo to Perlhoo-choo. > > When I saw the question, I thought the obvious counter-example was so > that it doesn't change C# to Perl# :) > > Now that's a frightening thought. Just what would Perl# be like? > > Cheers, Dave > > PS I'm a Luddite that refuses to learn C++. Backward compatibility with > C was the single biggest mistake Stroustrup made.
Gee, I thought I was a Luddite for not wanting my kids to start playing computer games when they turned 3. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jefferson, LA USA Great Inventors of our time: Al Gore -> Internet Sun Microsystems -> Clusters -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]