Re: (Beware helix packages) Re: [CrackMonkey] The right to bare legs
On Mon, Sep 25, 2000 at 04:07:58AM +0300, Eray Ozkural wrote:
> > Maybe so. I'd still like to see someone take up maintenance of jinstall
> > and package it personally. I'd do it myself if I could grok the perl.
>
> Do you mean dinstall? :) I was asking ppl why there aren't packages for
> dinstall and archive maintenance scripts.
I mean jinstall, aj's mini-dinstall-type-program that did just enough to
maintain a staging area archive. It was a specific tool to do a specific
job for a specific person at a specific time.
> > Perl so far is a language that I just don't understand. It defies the
> > conventional structured thinking I apply to the way I write my code.
>
> What makes you think C is better? :)
I can read C. I understand C if it hasn't been obfuscated to the point of
senselessness. I can write C. Hence, if I wrote something similar to it
which I actually intended to understand, I'd probably do it in C.
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