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Perl is worse!

Jake Speed speed at ?.com
Fri Jul 28 19:55:33 EDT 2000 
speed@?.com (Jake Speed) wrote in <so469a2go0b171 at corp.supernews.com>:

>morpheus at here.not.there (Steve Lamb) wrote in
><slrn8o449h.49c.grey at teleute.rpglink.com>: 
>
>>On Fri, 28 Jul 2000 22:38:32 GMT, William Tanksley
>><wtanksle at dolphin.openprojects.net> wrote:
>>>That's a really cruel statement for you to make.  I hope you were
>>>making it in jest.  I've seen nothing to indicate anything waranting
>>>this kind of attack.
>>
>>    Neither cruel or jest.  I consider "Automagic" coversion on the same
>>    vein 
>>as "Winblows".  I have hoped that there were people who were above that,
>>there are some, but it is here as in everywhere else.
>
>The term 'automagic' is commonly used by perl coders and porters.

Heck, even pythoners use it to describe python:

http://www.cwi.nl/www.python.org/search/hypermail/python-1994q2/0012.html

Altavista counts:

+perl +automagic*   : 3,369 pages
+tcl +automagic*    : 1,804 pages
+python +automagic* : 1,295 pages
+awk +automagic*    : 1,083 pages
+php +automagic*    :   505 pages
+guile +automagic*  :   133 pages
+cheese +automagic* :   129 pages
+ruby +automagic*   :    67 pages
+haskell +automagic*:    63 pages

-Speed!

(apparently, 'pork rinds' are not automagical at all)
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