re: nagios

2011-01-01 Thread Littlefield, Tyler
Adam, Frankly, I am getting really tired of listening to you. I've seen numerous good posts on this list, some post more good quality information and arguments than others, and so far I have yet to see any post of yours where you do not resort to insults and totally avoid the argument. I under

Re: Nagios

2011-01-01 Thread Adam Skutt
On Jan 1, 6:21 pm, Robert wrote: > > Really? How many templating systems does Python have? More than one? > Why is that? How many web frameworks does Perl have? More than one? Why > is that? > > Why *was* Nagios forked and re-written in Python? > > There are too many examples to count. > You're m

Re: Nagios

2011-01-01 Thread Robert
On 2011-01-01 10:34:46 -0500, Adam Skutt said: On Saturday, January 1, 2011 10:00:06 AM UTC-5, Robert H wrote: Right, just because you say it paints me in a negative light. Look at every language out there and look within the groups. Everyone is trying to revinvent the wheel to (in their view)

Re: Nagios

2011-01-01 Thread Robert
On 2011-01-01 10:34:46 -0500, Adam Skutt said: On Saturday, January 1, 2011 10:00:06 AM UTC-5, Robert H wrote: Right, just because you say it paints me in a negative light. Look at every language out there and look within the groups. Everyone is trying to revinvent the wheel to (in their view)

Re: Nagios

2011-01-01 Thread Adam Skutt
On Saturday, January 1, 2011 10:00:06 AM UTC-5, Robert H wrote: > > Right, just because you say it paints me in a negative light. Look at > every language out there and look within the groups. Everyone is trying > to revinvent the wheel to (in their view) make it better. "Everyone" is doing not

Re: Nagios

2011-01-01 Thread Robert
On 2010-12-31 23:57:24 -0500, Adam Skutt said: On Friday, December 31, 2010 9:56:02 PM UTC-5, Robert H wrote: It was forked to be written in Python, yes. The whole point (and it wasn't a Nagios port to Tcl) was that the Tcl community (and I like the Tcl community a lot) has a strange fixation w

Re: Nagios

2010-12-31 Thread Adam Skutt
On Friday, December 31, 2010 9:56:02 PM UTC-5, Robert H wrote: > It was forked to be written in Python, yes. The whole point (and it > wasn't a Nagios port to Tcl) was that the Tcl community (and I like the > Tcl community a lot) has a strange fixation with not reinventing the > wheel, even when

Re: Nagios

2010-12-31 Thread Robert
On 2010-12-31 16:52:30 -0500, Antoine Pitrou said: On 31 Dec 2010 04:20:59 GMT Steven D'Aprano wrote: On Thu, 30 Dec 2010 23:04:33 -0500, Robert wrote: The second way the Tcl community irks me is the "not invented here" attitude. I like the syntax of Tcl and I like the community. They are so