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From: Johanne Fairchild <jfairchild@tudado.org>
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Subject: Re: I did not inhale
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Kaz Kylheku <643-408-1753@kylheku.com> writes:

> On 2024-04-12, Kenny McCormack <gazelle@shell.xmission.com> wrote:
>> In article <uvbe3m$2cun7$1@dont-email.me>,
>> Janis Papanagnou  <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> wrote:
>> ...
>>>I've programmed in Perl but I'm no Perl-programmer notwithstanding.
>>
>> That's like saying "Yeah, I've had sex with men, but that don't make gay..."
>
> I've programmed so little in Perl in such distant nineties, that
> it's analogous to only having seen the shower scene in /Midnight Express/.

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.