Hello, On Wed, 30 Sep 2009, Girish Venkatachalam wrote: > Of course, that is a good thing. The utility is powerful but I > don't like it. It should have been way more simpler and friendlier > and still powerful.
Write such a (simpler and user-friendly) utility or at least design one! People criticise things like patch and Perl (and the English language) for very sound _theoretical_ reasons. However, these are successful systems and it is worth trying to understand why. The "There's more than one way to do it" philosophy that underlies these systems is one of the reasons people find it easy to adapt them to their way of thinking and _create_ programs (or simple sentences in English). Systems like Haskell and Lisp (or languages like Sanskrit) are very nicely structured and easier to read and understand once you learn the basics. However, these are much more difficult to get started with writing. C is neither easy to write nor easy to read! Regards, Kapil. -- _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, email [email protected] with "unsubscribe <password> <address>" in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
