David H. Adler on Sat, 5 Feb 2000 02:28:03 -0500 (EST)


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Re: ESR at Penn


On Thu, Feb 03, 2000 at 07:45:35AM -0500, Walt Mankowski wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 03, 2000 at 01:28:37AM -0500, Robert Spier wrote:
> >     Kewl.  I think the only famous person to visit my HS while I was
> > there was Cassius Clay.  
> 
> You mean Muhammad Ali?  He changed his name long before you were born.
> Almost before I was born.  :-)

Dang.  I was going to point that out.  :-/

Well, then, just to be contrary, I suggest you all bug ESR about his
not using Perl anymore.

Exchange from the last Perl Confrerence (paraphrased):

ESR: "I started using Python instead of Perl because I couldn't face
myself in the morning after writing a 5000 line perl program."

Me: "Why would you have to write one that long?"

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