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Re: YAPAS (Yet Another Python Advocacy Story)
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On Sun, Mar 05, 2000 at 01:34:58AM -0500, David H. Adler wrote:
> It's linked from the "Software Carpentry" page, but I hadn't really
> looked at it until now...
It's linked from the O'Reilly *home* page right now.
> Indeed. Not only does he say 'Many other programs are written in a
> variety of illegible dialects within the family of languages called
> "Perl".', which is clearly incomprehensible (is that an oxymoron?
> :-), but he also presents this comment: 'C++ and Perl only make sense
> if you have a particular programming background. If you did not come
> from the "Unix tradition", many of their conventions and idioms seem
> alien.'
>
> I should make clear that, before coming to Perl, I had last programmed
> in college, in the mid-eighties, in Pascal. I could not, for the life
> of me, tell you what kind of system we used. I've been using macs
> other than that since they first came out. A "Unix" background I did
> not have. In fact, had I not discovered Perl, I might very well
> *still* not have such a background.
It was a Univac 1100. I don't have a clue what OS it was running.
All I remember was that it was something slow. :-)
> I wonder if I should suggest he put that in his pipe and smoke it, or
> if that would be giving it more attention than it deserves... :-/
Sounds like he's prepared...
: Obviously there are many smart people out there preparing to send me
: an email claiming that the complexity "buys" them something
: valuable. I think that the cost is high.
Walt
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