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Re: is it possible to install a desktop-manager without python and perl?



2009/6/23 Hal Vaughan <hal@halblog.com>:
>
> On Jun 22, 2009, at 10:35 PM, 明覺 wrote:
>
>> 2009/6/23 Napoleon <rri0187@attglobal.net>:
>>>
>>> 明覺 wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 10:18 PM, John Hasler<jhasler@debian.org> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> 明覺 writes:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> yes, currently it's true, but I hope one day I will be able to take
>>>>>> full
>>>>>> control of my system, and modify them as i like, if I have those other
>>>>>> language programmed softwares installed in my system, it will be hard
>>>>>> to
>>>>>> maintain for me.
>>>>>
>>>>> If learning enough of another language to do maintainence is hard for
>>>>> you
>>>>> you aren't much of a programmer.  Programming is not about knowing a
>>>>> language.
>>>>
>>>> Yes, language is just a tool, so I want to keep my tool simple and
>>>> powerful, I do not want so many similar tools with the same functions.
>>>
>>> What you haven't learned is there are different languages FOR A REASON!
>>> No one language is "best" for everything.  For instance - I can code
>>> web pages in C/C++ - but it is much faster for me to do it in PHP, Perl
>>> or Java.  The same is true with anything else.
>>>
>>> I've got over 40 years of programming experience; in that time I've
>>> forgotten more languages than you have ever learned.  Some no longer
>>> even exist.  But every one of them had certain advantages and
>>> disadvantages - and those differences were a major reason why the
>>> languages were chosen for their particular projects.
>>>
>>> You don't like the way different languages handle strings - well, guess
>>> what.  If they all did everything the same way, they wouldn't be
>>> different languages!
>>>
>>> To be blunt (like others) - so you don't like the fact different
>>> languages are being used on your system.  There is no way you're going
>>> to be able to rewrite all that code in C/C++ in your lifetime.
>>>
>>> So you have two choices.  You can accept that fact and continue to
>>> learn, using the tools available to you, no matter what language, just
>>> like the rest of us do.
>>>
>>> Or, you can continue to bitch about it and make yourself miserable.  In
>>> this case, I suggest you try another profession - if you can't get over
>>> this little bit, you are not suited to be a programmer.  This will just
>>> be the first of many frustrations for you.
>>>
>>> And one more thing - you can continue to bitch in this email list, but
>>> if you do, it won't be long before people will stop responding to you -
>>> for ANY post, even when you're asking for help.
>>
>> I open this thread as a programmer, you can ignore my  questions about
>> programming in the future, but you should not ignore my questions as a
>> debian user.
>
> I don't know if your culture is aware of the story of "The Boy Who Cried
> Wolf," but you might want to look it up and see what it says.  The main
> point is that if people get used to seeing your emails following a pattern,
> after a while, they're not going to bother to read the same comments and
> lines of reasoning over and over if they have never found them interesting
> in the past.
I think I'm talking about something interesting and serious, I hope
there will be someone who is also interested in my thoughts, for those
who ignore my questions, I can understand, not everyone will agree
with me.
>
>
>
> Hal
>
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