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From: lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: "MOST COMMON NOVICE BUG" contest
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Date: 9 Mar 90 19:35:07 GMT
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In article <7856@ogicse.ogi.edu> schaefer@ogicse.ogi.edu (Barton E. Schaefer) writes:
: I also find myself automatically typing one of "else if" or "elif"
: instead of "elsif".  (Why in the world did you pick that particular
: contraction, Larry?  Just because nobody else did?)

Obviously, so that I could say that Perl is derived from Ada.     :-)

"else if" implies dangling statements, which I abhor mildly.  "elif" doesn't
pronounce right, even if it does spell "file" backwards.  "elseif" is ugly.
What's left?

Larry