Bjarne Stroustrup on Perl

What made him took so long to realize it :-)

From: Bjarne Stroustrup <bs@research.att.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl.misc
Subject: Perl is awsome!
Date: Mon, 01 Nov 2004 22:26:13 -0000
URL: news://<10ode051dl0hq9a@news.supernews.com>

> Scalars, arrays, hashes, references, modules...
> Perl is so cool!  Why didn't I think of it?
>
> How about Perl++?
>
> B
>
>
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Update:

The authenticity of this posting is in doubt.
Looks like the joke's on me. This was probably a forgery,
somebody's got to be laughing right now.
(Thanks for the advice from davido and bgreenlee.)

Regards,
Edward

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Re: Bjarne Stroustrup on Perl by kvale (Monsignor) on Nov 02, 2004 at 07:01 UTC
Please note that it is fairly easy to fake an address on Usenet. I think it unlikely that Bjarne Stroustrup would spell awesome incorrectly, or post a note that was so short :) -Mark	[reply]
Re^2: Bjarne Stroustrup on Perl by davido (Cardinal) on Nov 02, 2004 at 07:15 UTC
...Not to mention, by googling for recent Usenet posts by Bjarne Stroustrup, one can see that he always posts with a signature line, and never signs his messages "B". Still, it's rather clever. I'm not sure whether the person who posted it was trying to make a tongue-in-cheek statement about what Perl has, or what C has had for awhile, but it's worthy of a grin. Dave	[reply]
Re^3: Bjarne Stroustrup on Perl by iblech (Friar) on Nov 02, 2004 at 17:48 UTC
And, by analyzing the headers of the fake and other messages by Stroustrup you may notice an important difference: The fake message was `Posted via Supernews, http://www.supernews.com`, Stroustrup's other messages were posted via `http://groups.google.com`. /me goes away doing more important things...	[reply]
Re: Bjarne Stroustrup on Perl by pg (Canon) on Nov 02, 2004 at 06:49 UTC
It actually took me quite a while to realize Perl's beauty, as I focused too much on correctness. I guess this happens to anyone with my then way of thinking. Perl is freedom.	[reply]
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