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From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
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Subject: Re: perl
Date: Sat, 06 Oct 2001 21:00:49 +0200
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Georg Bauhaus <sb463ba@l1-hrz.uni-duisburg.de> writes:

> Still many people in Germany use autoconf, even Ada programmers.

If used reasonably, autoconf is not too terrible.

> Where do you (all) think named parameters in Perl,

The recent addition is probably more motivated by Python (and in turn,
by Modula 3) than by Ada.

> or the underscores in number literals come from, something Ada 
> fans sometime speak about with pride?

Perl development is heading in a rather strange direction at the
moment. ;-)