the "no good Perl jobs"/"no good Perl programmers" myth

Zach Vonler zvonler at gmail.com
Mon Aug 7 21:44:53 BST 2006


On 8/7/06, Peter Corlett <abuse at cabal.org.uk> wrote:
> As far as I can remember of set theory, it *does* determine the intersection
> of two sets, assuming you were daft enough to use an ordered datastructure
> that allows duplicate values as a representation of a set in the first
> place.

That's sort of the point -- I expect the candidate to point out that
such a declaration is only true under certain conditions that
java.util.List does not guarantee (neither do perl arrays).

Later,
Zach


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