Perl listed as famous hack

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Re: Perl listed as famous hack by zentara (Cardinal) on Jan 13, 2004 at 15:28 UTC
I've learned one thing. Just because some people have Ph.d's or they work for a money-rich organization, dosn't mean they have any brains. Most universities are just "diploma mills' nowadays. That said, Linux and Perl should be NUMBER 1 on the list, if you want to gauge them in terms of impact on the computing world. Just a bunch of idiots at ZD....they remind me of that recent Microsoft commercial shown during the football games.....the whole office runs around like jackasses and dumps water on some jerk, just because he got Windows to print out a report. Just the kind of employees I would want running my favorite corporation.	[reply]
Re: Perl listed as famous hack by jbware (Chaplain) on Jan 13, 2004 at 12:42 UTC
Hate to break it to the brilliant mathematicians at zd, but linux != perl. Sounds like its the "++9 Famous Hacks", if not a contrived list to begin w/...	[reply]
Re: Re: Perl listed as famous hack by shotgunefx (Parson) on Jan 13, 2004 at 12:49 UTC
Like I said, I don't give much weight to anything zd... -Lee "To be civilized is to deny one's nature."	[reply]
Re: Re: Re: Perl listed as famous hack by monktim (Friar) on Jan 13, 2004 at 15:12 UTC
It's listed under Yahoo!'s post popular stories (on the US site) They have Linux and Perl together but they describe the two as different entities. Larry Wall is credited for Perl, it says "Larry Wall took two programs called 'sed' and 'awk' and put together PERL, one of the most widely used scripting tools around.". Update: I removed the Yahoo! link because it was a reference to the same zd story the OP made.	[reply]