Re: Back to the original topic
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On 11/25/06 18:24, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> writes:
>
>> What matters is that Perl started out as
>
>> Perl is a interpreted language optimized for scanning arbi-
>> trary text files, extracting information from those text
>> files, and printing reports based on that information. It's
>> also a good language for many system management tasks. The
>
>> And has wound up being everything for everybody (who likes to swear
>> at the computer[*]). Definitely *not* The Unix Way.
>
> I must admit I have a knee-jerk dislike of the phrase "the Unix Way,"
> probably because I've seen it come up far too much in discussions of this
> sort and almost always with the apparent meaning "I don't like the tools
> that you use but don't have specific reasons that I think you'll find
> persuasive, so instead will just say that they're not the Unix Way."
And because "One Task, One Tool" went the way of the carrier pigeon
years ago.
> (And personally, I program in C, shell, Perl, Python, and Lisp depending
> on the situation, will probably end up learning Ruby.)
>
> I like what I can do with a current Debian system a lot more than what I
> could do with a pure Unix system from the mid-1980s.
Hell yes! Before Linux, my Unix experience was with early 1990s AIX
and a c. 1990 ATT 3b2. *Very* painful compared to my then-beloved
VAX/VMS and now-beloved OpenVMS.
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Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA USA
Is "common sense" really valid?
For example, it is "common sense" to white-power racists that
whites are superior to blacks, and that those with brown skins
are mud people.
However, that "common sense" is obviously wrong.
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