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From: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in>
To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>
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Subject: Re: most complex code in BSD?
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In-Reply-To: <xzp3d8qbsyj.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>; from des@ofug.org on Sun, Jun 24, 2001 at 02:51:48AM +0200
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Dag-Erling Smorgrav said on Jun 24, 2001 at 02:51:48:
> Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in> writes:
> > > > I happen to think that Terry is wrong, and you can write perfectly
> > > > readable code in Perl. I even hope some day to see an example.
> > fortune candidate?
> 
> Hmm, I think it's a paraphrase of a Mark Twain quote, which probably
> already is in the fortune database. 

Actually, now you mention it, it's vaguely reminiscent of

  "From the moment I picked up your book to the moment I put it down, I
  couldn't stop laughing.  Some day I hope to read it."         
     -- Groucho Marx to Leon Rotsky

Possibly Twain also, who knows.

R

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