| rindolf | Hmmm.. the link is broken. fxch: have you ever met RMS? I did when he came to visit Israel. |
| fxch | no |
| rindolf | I also met Larry Wall. Again, in Israel. |
| fxch | I think your country is dangerous |
| rindolf | fxch: it's not. fxch: you mean it's dangerous to live here? |
| fxch | Every report about it is war |
| rindolf | fxch: yes, but that's only part of the story. fxch: most of Israel is peaceful. fxch: Israel has the second highest life expectancy in the world, despite everything. fxch: or at least it used to. |
| ScribbleJ | "What's the death rate here?" "Same as everywhere else - one per." |
| rindolf | ScribbleJ: you mean 100%? |
| ScribbleJ | Exactly. |
| extintor | Israel is quite peaceful I agree |
| rindolf | Well, I'd better get to doing something for $work. I think I'm going to use Python, ctypes, and PyTAP to test my code. I have to write it in C. |
| fxch | Let's talk about perl |
| rindolf | fxch: OK. |
| extintor | fxch: sure |
| fxch | In Chinese, perl is pronounced like 'poor' |
| rindolf | fxch: heh. fxch: Perl is meaningless in Hebrew. We pronounce it as Prl like forver Berl is a private name. Hebrew only has 5 vowels and a stop vowel. fxch: how did you learn Perl? I've learned it from the perl*.pod man pages. |
| fxch | read some books |
| rindolf | Which I wouldn't recommend now. fxch: which ones? |
| fxch | and the book written by Larry Wall |
| rindolf | fxch: you mean the Camel book? |
| fxch | yeah |