From: ptkwt@...1.aracnet.com (Phil Tomson)
Date: 2001-02-16T08:40:02+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:10936] Re: Avoid bad advocacy, please

In article <20010215225415.22794.qmail@web10510.mail.yahoo.com>,
John van V. <john_van_v@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>--- Robert Dawson and Yukihiro Matsumoto..
>
>> > From my experience as a Christian missionary long time ago...
>> Wow.....
>> 
>> is there anything this man hasn't done!!!!!
>> 
>> missionary and great programming language in one.
>
>Uncanny... Larry W's dad was a missionary, I think his linuguistics interest
>led to perl...

Actually, I think Larry W himself was planning to be a missionary at one 
point and received some linguistics training in order to do Bible 
translation.  Then for some reason (health reasons?) he couldn't do it and 
ended up in Software and then created Perl.

Phil