Jonathan Byron wrote:
The date of the press release on the merger of python and perl have made a few people wonder just how serious it is, not to mention the fact that the two languages are so dissimilar that merging them is like merging English and Chinese.
I am trying to find a polite way to say 'Duh!'. This idea is so improbable, that not even the page on O'Reilly's site could make me blink: http://www.oreilly.com/parrot/ I mean, look at this code: # copy stdin to stdout, except for lines starting with # while left_angle_right_angle: if dollar_underscore[0] =eq= "#": continue_next; } print dollar_underscore; } Or this one: while(@line = Sys::Stdin->readline()): continue_next if $line[0] =eq= "#": print @line; } Bleh! Michael Bernstein.