On 27 Nov, 01:59, Steven D'Aprano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Oh please Steve. Did you read Xah's post or stop after the second > paragraph? It was amazingly *non* vituperative, and I don't just mean > "for Xah".
Agreed, although I had to look "vituperative" up first. Is the mere presence of Xah Lee's name now shocking in itself? > I only counted two uses of the f-word and one of the a-word, none of > which I personally would object to (we're grown-ups, naughty words > shouldn't shock us). The only things which were even *close* to a > vituperative rant were a short comment about Brian Harvey being unhappy > with Scheme 6, and that Sun Microsystems use inferior versions of shell > tools. Maybe half a dozen lines expressing strong opinions, out of a 300 > line post. And I'd definitely want to express frustration with the latter situation if I had to use a Sun operating system without the GNU suite of programs installed. I haven't checked, but perhaps even the latest release of OpenSolaris still has the /usr/ucb, /usr/ccs and /usr/xpg5 directories (or whatever they're called), although these probably no longer provide the default tools. Paul -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
