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From: cpcahil@virtech.uucp (Conor P. Cahill)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: "MOST COMMON NOVICE BUG" contest
Message-ID: <1990Mar9.013018.14672@virtech.uucp>
Date: 9 Mar 90 01:30:18 GMT
References: <15230@bfmny0.UU.NET> <15232@bfmny0.UU.NET> <1118@etnibsd.UUCP>
Reply-To: cpcahil@virtech.UUCP (Conor P. Cahill)
Organization: Virtual Technologies Inc., Sterling VA
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In article <1118@etnibsd.UUCP> vsh@etnibsd.UUCP (Steve Harris) writes:
>So, what are the "TEN MOST COMMON NOVICE BUGS" in perl?  I nominate:
>
>    Placing a comma after a filehandle in a print statement.
>
>Anybody care to add more?  Novices, SPEAK UP!!

Every dang time I write, or modify, a script I always have
at least 1 syntax error where I didn't put the $ before a variable in 
an assignment.  Too much shell programming, I guess.

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