Re: "Art Of Unix Programming" on Perl

On Sun, Feb 11, 2001 at 01:46:42AM -0500, Eric S. Raymond wrote:
> brian d foy <[email protected]>:
> > On Fri, 9 Feb 2001, Simon Cozens wrote:
> > > Perhaps we're not giving the right impression. Hey, brian, aren't
> > > you supposed to be preventing this from happening?
> > no, it isn't.
> 
> I find this response somewhat mysterious.

Likewise. More so since I didn't even receive it. 
(I think he means that it isn't stagnant. But who can tell?)

Hey, Brian, you're meant to be the PR guy.

Your strategy might work in the corporate world, but in the open source
world, the first rule of PR is to actually make sense. This may come as
a bit of a shock, I know.

The second rule... well, if you didn't know the second rule, you
wouldn't have taken the job on, right?

Brian, you're not in my good books today, this month or this year.

Please sort it out. Now.

-- 
A language that doesn't have everything is actually easier to program
in than some that do.
		-- Dennis M. Ritchie