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From: ccplumb@lion.waterloo.edu (Colin Plumb)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: Super Macho Hackers! (was Re: Novice Questions)
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Date: 7 Feb 90 06:46:06 GMT
References: <1004@frankland-river.aaii.oz.au> <14678@fluke.COM> <1990Feb6.223117.16428@iwarp.intel.com>
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In article <1990Feb6.223117.16428@iwarp.intel.com> merlyn@iwarp.intel.com (Randal Schwartz) writes:
>In article <14678@fluke.COM>, inc@tc (Gary Benson) writes:
>| One person wrote that PERL was "created by Super Macho Hackers to keep their
>| Maniac Power Urges under control". I don't know about that, but I am certain
>| that this person's next statement is right on the mark: PERL is *not* a
>| trivial language.
>
> Larry?  A "Super Macho Hacker"?
>
> I've never heard *that* applied to him before. :-)

I confess; 'twas me who said it.  I just felt that anyone who
puts socket calls in a script language is revealing a subconsious
desire to write a newer and more feature-laden sendmail in said
language, just to prove It Can Be Done.

I wonder if anyone's set the sticky bit on their Perl yet.

BTW, given a truly arbitrary filename in $file (e.g.
'>>/new
line/back\slash/Caller*ID/huh?/a pipe looks like this: |'),
what's the best way to open it in various modes?
=-- 
	-Colin