Re: The Importance of Terminology's Quality

2008-05-31 Thread Arne Vajhøj
szr wrote: Peter Duniho wrote: On Fri, 30 May 2008 22:40:03 -0700, szr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Arne Vajhøj wrote: Stephan Bour wrote: Lew wrote: } John Thingstad wrote: } > Perl is solidly based in the UNIX world on awk, sed, } > bash and C. I don't like the s

Re: The Importance of Terminology's Quality

2008-05-31 Thread Arne Vajhøj
szr wrote: Arne Vajhøj wrote: Stephan Bour wrote: Lew wrote: } John Thingstad wrote: } > Perl is solidly based in the UNIX world on awk, sed, bash and C. } > I don't like the style, but many do. } } Please exclude the Java newsgroups from this discussion. Did it ever occur to y

Re: The Importance of Terminology's Quality

2008-05-30 Thread Arne Vajhøj
Stephan Bour wrote: Lew wrote: } John Thingstad wrote: } > Perl is solidly based in the UNIX world on awk, sed, bash and C. } > I don't like the style, but many do. } } Please exclude the Java newsgroups from this discussion. Did it ever occur to you that you don't speak for entire news groups?

Re: Distributed RVS, Darcs, tech love

2007-10-21 Thread Arne Vajhøj
llothar wrote: >> I'm, not sure that I'm getting your point, but are you trying to argue that >> _not_ knowing mathemathics makes you a better programmer? > > No but it doesn't help you very much either. They are just different > skills. Many things within programming have a foundation in mathema