Now THAT's a meditation I will gladly chime in on, but not in this thread. Welcome back, L~R, we've missed you. :)

As a follow-on to my original rant^H^H^H^Hposting, let me say that I'll also bet good money that the examples I presented are more likely "features" added by requirements dictated by some creatures other than programmers. We do it often enough to ourselves that my point is still valid, but I should give brickbats where brickbats are actually usually due.

Bearing in mind that the current corporate owner of the aforementioned software is well known (for longer than most of us have been programming) for being really full of its own self-importance, and yet is still successfully in business, we might conclude that being obnoxious is good for the bottom line, but I really hope we won't.

Don Wilde
"There's more than one level to any answer."

In reply to Re^2: Perl is too blankety-blank easy! by samizdat
in thread Perl is too blankety-blank easy! by samizdat

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