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Date:      Mon, 9 Nov 1998 15:12:06 +0100
From:      Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no>
To:        Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>, =?iso-8859-1?Q?Dag-Erling_C=2E_Sm=F8rgrav?= <dag-erli@ifi.uio.no>
Cc:        mike@seidata.com, chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: "Eek"
Message-ID:  <19981109151206.03721@follo.net>
In-Reply-To: <199811090433.VAA14242@usr07.primenet.com>; from Terry Lambert on Mon, Nov 09, 1998 at 04:33:02AM %2B0000
References:  <xzp67csmp9u.fsf@hrotti.ifi.uio.no> <199811090433.VAA14242@usr07.primenet.com>

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On Mon, Nov 09, 1998 at 04:33:02AM +0000, Terry Lambert wrote:
> > > > http://dd.sh/perlfs/
> > > Great...  when will FreeBSD implement this?  ;-P
> > 
> > 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..."
> 
> ?

This is a misquotation (though you may be aware of it, it is not
certain the readers are.)  The correct quotation is 'If your tool is
C++, then everything looks like a thumb."  I unfortunately don't
remember the original author, and have lost my quotes collection that
that was in :-(

Eivind.

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