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Re^4: Don't Write That In Perl!
by chromatic (Archbishop) on Dec 20, 2007 at 06:01 UTC
    It's not just me, rumor says that 99% in this industry agree with me.

    Is that a rumor or a survey? Surveys only count if you have statistics to back them up and independently-verifiable stochastic models with measurable accuracies. Rumors only count if you, my dear custodiem, did not make them up yourself.

    ... the facts are out there,like you said, a bunch of useless working releases.

    Useless is sort of up to the user to decide, donchathink? I can find you a metric heavyweight load of people who consider MySQL 3.23 the very height of uselessness, and I can find you at least that many people who reached their own personal definitions of success by using it. Even though several years later we all realize that MySQL 3.23 wasn't finished by any means, and MySQL 5.1 isn't finished by any means, and MySQL 6.0 isn't finished by any means, you'd have to redefine quite a lot of words to declare unfinished software completely useless, and my dear apparatchik, your English skillz are really not mad enuf to make that work.

    ... your working releases are useless to me, or most of the people out there...

    Babydoll, most of the people in the world ain't programmers. Not sure that surprised anyone else on this site. Now do be a good little boy, and take your airy fairy tautologies, and run along. It's close to your bedtime, innit?

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Re^4: Don't Write That In Perl!
by Ovid (Cardinal) on Dec 20, 2007 at 07:57 UTC

    99%? Come back when you're no longer the captain of the USS Make Shit Up.

    Cheers,
    Ovid

    New address of my CGI Course.

      Short and pithy, but mine had Latin and Russian! (Now's when you come along and correct my declension.)

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