From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Nov 9 06:21:57 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA06709 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Mon, 9 Nov 1998 06:21:57 -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 GAA06675 for ; Mon, 9 Nov 1998 06:20:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dag-erli@ifi.uio.no) Received: from sida.ifi.uio.no (2602@sida.ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.152]) by ifi.uio.no (8.8.8/8.8.7/ifi0.2) with SMTP id PAA25685; Mon, 9 Nov 1998 15:17:52 +0100 (MET) Received: from localhost (dag-erli@localhost) by sida.ifi.uio.no ; Mon, 9 Nov 1998 14:17:47 GMT Mime-Version: 1.0 To: Eivind Eklund Cc: Terry Lambert , "Dag-Erling C. Smørgrav" , mike@seidata.com, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: "Eek" References: <199811090433.VAA14242@usr07.primenet.com> <19981109151206.03721@follo.net> 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 15:17:44 +0100 In-Reply-To: Eivind Eklund's message of "Mon, 9 Nov 1998 15:12:06 +0100" Message-ID: Lines: 15 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 GAA06705 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Eivind Eklund writes: > On Mon, Nov 09, 1998 at 04:33:02AM +0000, Terry Lambert wrote: > > "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 :-( The one I originally referred to is "If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail". 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