On 17 Aug 2006 06:42:55 -0700, "Xah Lee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Of interest:
>
> The Semicolon Wars, by Brian Hayes. 2006.
> http://www.americanscientist.org/template/AssetDetail/assetid/51982
[snip]
> What Languages to Hate, Xah Lee, 2002
>http://xahlee.org/UnixResource_dir/writ/language_t
"Iain King" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in news:1155827943.041208.51220
@i3g2000cwc.googlegroups.com:
> I'm confused - I thought Xah Lee loved Perl? Now he's bashing it?
> Huh?
That's his other personality.
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Greg R. Broderic
>>It was philosophers that got us out of that Dark Ages mess, and no small
>>number of them lost their lives in doing so. And today, the philosophy
>>majors are the butts of the most jokes, because after the philosophers
>>succeeded in opening our minds, we forgot why we needed them.
Look east X
Xah Lee wrote:
>
> • What Languages to Hate, Xah Lee, 2002
> http://xahlee.org/UnixResource_dir/writ/language_to_hate.html
Nonsense. This is technology, not religion. Technologists in fact have a
responsibility to identify and use the best tools available.
Xah, you are getting soft in your o
Iain King wrote:
> Xah Lee wrote:
>> Of interest:
>>
>> . The Semicolon Wars, by Brian Hayes. 2006.
>> http://www.americanscientist.org/template/AssetDetail/assetid/51982
>>
>> in conjunction to this article, i recommend:
>>
>> . Software Needs Philosophers, by Steve Yegge, 2006
>> http://xahlee.o
Xah Lee wrote:
> Of interest:
>
> • The Semicolon Wars, by Brian Hayes. 2006.
> http://www.americanscientist.org/template/AssetDetail/assetid/51982
>
> in conjunction to this article, i recommend:
>
> • Software Needs Philosophers, by Steve Yegge, 2006
> http://xahlee.org/Periodic_dosage_dir/_p/s
What's more of a waste of time:
1. The 30 minutes he took to write his vacuous essay.
2. The 15 seconds it took to skim it and see nothing worth reading.
3. The 30 seconds it took to write this post.
Tough call.
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Xah Lee wrote:
> Of interest:
>
> · The Semicolon Wars, by Brian Hayes. 2006.
> http://www.americanscientist.org/template/AssetDetail/assetid/51982
>
> in conjunction to this article, i recommend:
>
> · Software Needs Philosophers, by Steve Yegge, 2006
> http://xahlee.org/Periodic_dosage_dir/_p/so
