Joshua Macy amused at webamused.com
Sat Jul 29 18:18:31 EDT 2000

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Steve Lamb wrote:
> 
> On Sat, 29 Jul 2000 15:49:00 GMT, Joshua Macy <amused at webamused.com> wrote:
> >  I could be wrong, but I'm under the strong impression that the term
> >"automagic" is thrown around repeatedly as a description of Perl's
> >behavior in Programming Perl.  Does that make Larry Wall a disgrace to
> >the language he invented?
> 
>     No because he doesn't throw it around as a negative of the language like
> some people here did.
> 

  So it's not the term itself you find offensive, but the way it's
used?  It sounds to me like what you're objecting to is the mere fact
that some people dislike the behavior that Larry Wall calls "automagic",
not that they use the same term that he does to describe that behavior.

  Joshua

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