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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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