From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Nov 9 03:49:53 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id DAA19119 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Mon, 9 Nov 1998 03:49:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ifi.uio.no (ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id DAA18947; Mon, 9 Nov 1998 03:47:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dag-erli@ifi.uio.no) Received: from yggdrasil.ifi.uio.no (2602@yggdrasil.ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.182]) by ifi.uio.no (8.8.8/8.8.7/ifi0.2) with ESMTP id LAA09278; Mon, 9 Nov 1998 11:22:21 +0100 (MET) Received: (from dag-erli@localhost) by yggdrasil.ifi.uio.no ; Mon, 9 Nov 1998 11:22:20 +0100 (MET) Mime-Version: 1.0 To: Terry Lambert Cc: mike@seidata.com, chat@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: "Eek" References: <199811090433.VAA14242@usr07.primenet.com> Organization: University of Oslo, Department of Informatics X-url: http://www.stud.ifi.uio.no/~dag-erli/ X-other-addresses: 'finger dag-erli@ifi.uio.no' for a list X-disclaimer-1: The views expressed in this article are mine alone, and do X-disclaimer-2: not necessarily coincide with those of any organisation or X-disclaimer-3: company with which I am or have been affiliated. X-Stop-Spam: http://www.cauce.org/ From: dag-erli@ifi.uio.no (Dag-Erling C. =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= ) Date: 09 Nov 1998 11:22:19 +0100 In-Reply-To: Terry Lambert's message of "Mon, 9 Nov 1998 04:33:02 +0000 (GMT)" Message-ID: Lines: 13 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/Emacs 19.34 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id DAA19096 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Terry Lambert writes: > > Never, I hope. There is a proverb about hammers and nails which has > > often been invoked for Perl; it is particularly pertinent to this > > situation. > You mean the one that goes: > > "If the only tool you have is PERL, everything looks like a thumb..." Uh, yeah, something like that :) DES -- Dag-Erling Smørgrav - dag-erli@ifi.uio.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message