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- From: lwall@netlabs.com (Larry Wall)
- Subject: Re: ARE ALL ANONS JERKS?????
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.190903.1670@netlabs.com>
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- Organization: NetLabs, Inc.
- References: <1993Jan24.213859.9101@fuug.fi>
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 19:09:03 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan24.213859.9101@fuug.fi> an388@anon.penet.fi writes:
- : Strange comments, coming from somebody whose e-mail address comes
- : up "nobody" when you try to do a reply! Knowing that little
- : oddity, the additional fact that "perl" is a programming
- : language, and "Dan" is a loose extract from the first name of one
- : of perl's authors, one has to wonder.
-
- One has to wonder who does your research. The only people I can think
- of offhand who have contributed significant amounts of code to Perl are
-
- Larry Wall
- Henry Spencer
- Chris Kingsley
- Chip Salzenberg
-
- Some people might also dispute your assertion that Perl is a
- programming language, but I'll let that one go... :-)
-
- Larry Wall
- lwall@netlabs.com
-