Re: is it possible to install a desktop-manager without python and perl?
On Tue, 23 Jun 2009 11:52:41 -0400
Jeff Soules <soules@gmail.com> wrote:
...
> Quick storytime: Several years back, I was writing some XML format
> converters in Perl. There are wonderful pre-written Perl modules to
> parse and output XML. But I wanted to "learn more," so I insisted on
> doing it all myself. (Management wasn't watching me too closely.) It
> took me three times as long to write and the code wasn't flexible or
> maintainable... and honestly, I didn't learn anything worthwhile, but
> I wanted to "learn." Now, whenever I find myself doing this, I look
> back at that: do I *really* want to spend my time inventing inferior
> ways to parse XML? Is it so interesting to write string parsers?
> What am I learning? How much better it is just to learn the common
> tools! If I want to learn, I'm better off reading someone else's
> great code than writing my own bad code. It's not the "waste of time
> those scripts languages bring to us programmers" -- they exist to SAVE
> time. If you doubt it, challenge a perl programmer to a race
> sometime. There are problems for which it would be faster to *learn
> perl well enough to write a perl solution* than to write the solution
> in C.
Interesting; here's a different perspective (I'm not a serious enough
coder to go on the record with an opinion):
http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001145.html
Celejar
--
mailmin.sourceforge.net - remote access via secure (OpenPGP) email
ssuds.sourceforge.net - A Simple Sudoku Solver and Generator
Reply to: