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From: lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: General programming questions are not appropriate for comp.lang.*
Message-ID: <10625@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
Date: 4 Dec 90 01:49:30 GMT
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Reply-To: lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall)
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In article <24496:Dec400:23:4090@kramden.acf.nyu.edu> brnstnd@kramden.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein) writes:
: In article <10613@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV> lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall) writes:
: > Much though I despise Dan's use of English as a club
: > to pummel people into submission,
: 
: When Benjamin Franklin found the strength of his logical arguments for
: the education of women overwhelmed by his opponent's style, he didn't
: whine about it. He started practicing his writing skills, with a set of
: exercises still widely respected today. He stopped losing arguments.
: 
: Not that he really believed in educating women in the first place.

At which point, my wife leans over my shoulder and says, "And they
say that women always have to have the last word!"

Larry


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