On Fri, Aug 04, 2000 at 11:31:30PM -0400, Ken Fox wrote:
> > not because language design is a fun thing to do of an evening.
>
> Huh? You mean I'm supposed to pretend to not enjoy myself? I keep
> all my hair shirts at work, thanks.
Don't be stupid. I said we're *primarily* doing it for the good of Perl.
Well, *I*'m doing it for the good of Perl.
> With that said, I could agree with RFC 28 if the insulting and anti-
> community rhetoric about computer science and new-ideas-are-bad was
> toned down.
New ideas are good.
Bad ideas are bad.
I'm trying to encourage people to draw a distinction, but it doesn't seem to
be working. I really don't want to have to be forced to withdraw this RFC, but
that's the way it's headed.
> (Remember Larry's slide with the Perl influences on it?
> Linguistics, Art, Common Sense *and* Computer Science.)
I know. My point was that we shouldn't forget the first three in blind
pursuit of the forth.
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There are two kinds of egotists: 1) Those who admit it 2) The rest of us
