On Fri, 2005-04-08 at 15:21 -0400, Greg Folkert wrote: > On Wed, 2005-04-06 at 21:34 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > On Wed, 2005-04-06 at 21:55 -0400, Hal Vaughan wrote: > > > On Wednesday 06 April 2005 09:46 pm, Mike wrote: > > > > Ron Johnson wrote: > [...] > > > > > Perl certainly can do something similar. > > > > > > > > Wow.. doesn't this seem a little excessive? > > > > > > Ya gotta understand Ron. > > > > > > He's a Python evangelist -- he's tried to convert me from Perl several times > > > on another mailing list. > > > > Remember where I said, "Perl certainly can do something similar."? > > > > Point being, though, that there's more to life than bash and coreutils, > > so *sometimes* it's easier to use a different tool. > > But, why would anyone use something they are not comfortable with? Going back over my emails, I can't find any place where I wrote, "You must use Python or be condemned to CompSci Hell." The key phrases were "more to life" and "sometimes". They seem pretty inclusive to me... -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson, LA USA PGP Key ID 8834C06B I prefer encrypted mail. "Peace is normally a great good, and normally it coincides with righteousness, but it is righteousness and not peace which should bind the conscience of a nation as it should bind the conscience of an individual; and neither a nation nor an individual can surrender conscience to another's keeping." Theodore Roosevelt
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