[OT] Perl Question

[Ben Pfaff]

Dan Nguyen <nguyend7@cse.msu.edu> writes:

> > > 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.

...after all, "$!" is approximately what I say when my software
doesn't work :-)