Greg Ewing (using news.cis.dfn.de) g2h5dqi002 at sneakemail.com
Sun Oct 12 23:22:36 EDT 2003

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Alex Martelli wrote:
> Besides,
> "if you want PL/I you know where to find it" has nice precedents (in
> the only other language which was widely successful in the real world
> while adhering to "provide only one way to perform an operation" as
> one of its guiding principles -- not perfectly, but, close enough:-).

Pardon? Wasn't PL/I the language that had two wildly different
syntaxes for declaring variables, one bearing a close resemblance
to Fortran, and the other looking suspiciously like Cobol?
(All right, two... there are *two* ways to do it...)

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