Kosher for Passover software

[Gabor Szabo]

On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 10:55 AM, Shlomi Fish <shlomif at iglu.org.il> wrote:

> Well, first of all, it should be noted that the "$" sign is generally
> associated with greed for money (Like "Make $$$ fast.") etc.

So you say Larry Wall makes all of us Perl programmers greedy?

He basically invented the extensive use of the $ signs:

use 5.010;

$what = "the_answer";
$$what = 42;

say $the_answer;

say $$$what;


> If "M$" implied respect for both the dollar sign and for Microsoft, it would
> be OK, but fact is it undermines both.

I think  /M$/  just means it ends with an M but I am just a greedy Perl hacker.

Gabor
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