-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 11/25/06 18:24, Russ Allbery wrote: > Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> What matters is that Perl started out as > >> Perl is a interpreted language optimized for scanning arbi- >> trary text files, extracting information from those text >> files, and printing reports based on that information. It's >> also a good language for many system management tasks. The > >> And has wound up being everything for everybody (who likes to swear >> at the computer[*]). Definitely *not* The Unix Way. > > I must admit I have a knee-jerk dislike of the phrase "the Unix Way," > probably because I've seen it come up far too much in discussions of this > sort and almost always with the apparent meaning "I don't like the tools > that you use but don't have specific reasons that I think you'll find > persuasive, so instead will just say that they're not the Unix Way."
And because "One Task, One Tool" went the way of the carrier pigeon years ago. > (And personally, I program in C, shell, Perl, Python, and Lisp depending > on the situation, will probably end up learning Ruby.) > > I like what I can do with a current Debian system a lot more than what I > could do with a pure Unix system from the mid-1980s. Hell yes! Before Linux, my Unix experience was with early 1990s AIX and a c. 1990 ATT 3b2. *Very* painful compared to my then-beloved VAX/VMS and now-beloved OpenVMS. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Is "common sense" really valid? For example, it is "common sense" to white-power racists that whites are superior to blacks, and that those with brown skins are mud people. However, that "common sense" is obviously wrong. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFFaOAhS9HxQb37XmcRArwtAJ9jy1Zp+1xeuhm9J4y5Z6ZtDRU8yACggjB9 RxwdLXO84p6vkV5UalVpwG8= =4sr0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
