Looking for balanced critique of Perl

James L. Logan logan at rockville.dg.com
Wed Jul 4 08:07:16 AEST 1990


In article <814 at ehviea.ine.philips.nl> leo at ehviea.UUCP (Leo de Wit) writes:
# In article <8497 at jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV> lwall at jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV
# (Larry Wall) writes:
# |                                 [ . . . ]     People really don't know
# |how to use computers yet.  Sigh.)
# 
# [ . . . ]                         There really should be an option of
# the pager to compare modulo underlining/fat printing.

Use the public-domain pager called "less".  It can be configured
to ignore underlining, boldfacing, etc.  In fact, I use it to
scan the perl man pages myself.  

		Just another happy hacker,
			-Jim
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