[OT] Perl Question

Dan Nguyen nguyend7@cse.msu.edu
Mon, 27 Mar 2000 23:13:41 -0500


> > open FILE, "foobar" or die "$!";
> 
> Hmmm... maybe I should move my plans to learn perl up a little; any language
> where you can threaten the computer with death for not following a command
> has GOT to be an OK language!

And think... some people don't like Perl because it's hard to
read.... the above line makes perfect sense to programmers and
non-programmers alike.

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