Quote #206

So please don't think I have a 'down' on the MVS people. I'm just pulling off their arms to beat other people over the head with.

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  1. I view the JVM as just another architecture that Perl ought to be ported to. (That, and the Underwood typewriter...)
  2. It's, uh, pseudo code. Yeah, that's the ticket... [...] And 'unicode' is pseudo code for $encoding. :-)
  3. I note that the Python folks still think they like JPython. I wonder how long that will last?
  4. : What do people think? What, do people think? :-)
  5. The court finds everyone to be in contempt (including himself :-), and orders everyone sentenced to five years hard labor. (Working on Perl…
  6. Well, sure, I explicitly mentioned 'vtables' last time I brought this up. But a single pointer is fairly paltry, as tables go. :-)
  7. And besides, if Perl really takes off in the Windows space, I think the rest of us would just as soon have a double-agent within ActiveStat…
  8. I dunno. Perhaps you should be happy that I have a policy of refraining from grumbling about handicapped operating systems. :-)

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