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From: Johanne Fairchild <jfairchild@tudado.org>
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Subject: Re: I did not inhale
Date: Sat, 13 Apr 2024 08:17:31 -0300
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ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) writes:

> Johanne Fairchild <jfairchild@tudado.org> wrote or quoted:
>>I programmed in Perl to filter log files, but then I got to The AWK
>> >Programming Language book.  Sadly, I never wrote another Perl.  I
>> don't
>>think I do very well with sophisticated languages.  I feel I need a
>>single reasonable way of doing things.
>
>   Perl:
>
>   The motto of the Perl community is, "There's More Than One Way
>   To Do It," or TMTOWDI (pronounced "Tim Toady").
>
>   Python:
>
>   There should be one - and preferably only one - obvious way
>   to do it. Although that way may not be obvious at first unless
>   you're Dutch.

Why Dutch?  Unless I understand Guido van Rossum very well? :)