sorting pathnames by basename

[bscott at ntisys.com]

On Tue, 20 Aug 2002, at 12:30pm, Erik Price wrote:
> For that matter, I find that the word "cannonical" is bandied about in
> Perl culture far more than anywhere else!  ;)  Interesting for a language
> in which there's more than one way to do things.

  I suspect that is why.  If there are many ways to do things, the community
will likely want to settle on a subset of them.  Hence the term "idiom",
which also gets a lot of use in Perl.

  Consider these three English sentences:

  - That is Fred's pencil.
  - That pencil belongs to Fred.
  - That is the pencil of Fred.

  All three mean the same thing, but the first is by far the most common in
American English.  Perl is a lot like English.  (Hmmm, that could be
considered an insult to Perl.  <grin>)

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Ben Scott <bscott at ntisys.com>
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