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If "author of first book about Perl" doesn't make your book, you're a pretty poor writer.
by RandalSchwartz 15y ago
If "author of first book about Perl" doesn't make your book, you're a pretty poor writer.
- dwyer 15y agoNothing I said was meant to be taken personally, so please stop with the ad hominems. I apologize if I offended you. I didn't mean to imply that your life and work are not important. I just don't feel like every single biography is worthy of ``the sum of human knowledge'', even if that person's work is. I guess that's not a fashionable opinion to have in the post-Twitter era, especially on a website where people submit their .vimrc files as potential ``hacker news'', but it is my opinion and I'm sticking to it.
- RandalSchwartz 15y agoIt's not about being taking personally. It's just a fact: I wrote (with Larry Wall) the first book about Perl. And then the second book about Perl, which became the seminal teaching guide. If that doesn't deserve a note in the Perl history, you're confused.