On Mon, 22 Jun 2009 12:21:22 -0400 Hal Vaughan <h...@halblog.com> wrote:
> ... > > I'm being blunt, but, honestly, I run a business on custom software > I've written and I can do it because I learned from those who knew > more than I did. If I refused to learn from people on this and other > lists, I'd be an idiot and would still be wasting most of my life at > the keyboard. I found one can save days, weeks, months, or even > years, by listening to those with experience. You don't seem to want > to listen to the experience of many. > Learn from other people's errors, you don't have time to make them all yourself ;-) Like others said, learn whats the right tool for the job, do the jobs you feel like and leave the others to the ones who like other jobs better. Don't forget to live. Like I like to say, I'm more scared of not living than of dying. I hope you can figure out the meaning ... I also find that messing about in languages I know nothing about tought me also about those I do know something about and also tought me what I don't want to do and what I'm wasting my time on with the wrong tool > That's fine, but don't come crying to us in 3-4 years when you realize > how much time you've wasted with such a capricious fetish. > I'm still claiming that the world would have been a better place if computers hadn't been invented, or at least if user interface (cli, gui, whatever) has never been invented, and the more I learn the more I'm convinced on that matter ;-) I used to be more of a purist like you but after going through, c, c++, java, matlab, perl, fortran (yes it's still alive and kicking ...), assembly, basic, pascal, logo, lisp and I don't know how many others I came to the concultion that if I can save three weeks programing, let the program run a couple of days instead of a couple of hours (assuming it needs to be run once or twice) and go out to date my wife, mountain bike, kite surf, watch the sunset or whatever, I'm much better of and sociaty is not the worst of it. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
