Xref: utzoo comp.lang.perl:4131 alt.tv.twin-peaks:8669 Path: utzoo!utgpu!cs.utexas.edu!bcm!dimacs.rutgers.edu!seismo!uunet!rbj From: rbj@uunet.UU.NET (Root Boy Jim) Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl,alt.tv.twin-peaks Subject: Re: The Camel book Message-ID: <123376@uunet.UU.NET> Date: 19 Feb 91 22:36:42 GMT References: <123266@uunet.UU.NET> <288@carssdf.UUCP> Followup-To: comp.lang.perl Organization: UUNET Communications Services, Falls Church, VA Lines: 23 In article <288@carssdf.UUCP> usenet@carssdf.UUCP (John Watson) writes: ?Give to universities: A VERY GOOD IDEA. I recomend CLARKSON, Potsdam NY ?for a couple of hunderd copies. ? ?I would think anyone working in the state of Washington would get VERY ?UPSET at plundering our natural resources for something as trivial as ?a smeared cover. Really! Send them to Twin Peaks! Larry was really writing code for BOB, not Job! Remember Perl Lakes? Note the TR operator. ?Get these books spread into universities and open some minds. Maybe in ?the next decade we can stamp out COBOL once and for all. I keep telling people that COBOL is a BETTER language than FORTRAN. Why? Because it has BETTER DATA STRUCTURES while the control constructs are similar. And MOVE CORRESPONDING is an idea I have not seen in any other language. Choose your targets better. ?John Watson -- [rbj@uunet 1] stty sane unknown mode: sane