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From: dave at horsfall.org (Dave Horsfall)
Date: Fri, 27 Dec 2019 14:00:07 +1100 (EST)
Subject: [COFF] What languges would you like to learn?
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On Thu, 26 Dec 2019, Tom Ivar Helbekkmo via COFF wrote:

> This reminds me of something Erik Naggum said (about another language, 
> and in harsher words (as was his wont), but the underlying point about 
> the language affecting how problems are solved is the same):
>
> "It's not that perl programmers are idiots, it's that the language 
> rewards idiotic behavior in a way that no other language or tool has 
> ever done."

As a Perl programmer, I second that :-)  It's too easy to make mistakes.

-- Dave