Re: YAPAS (Yet Another Python Advocacy Story)

["David H. Adler" <dha@panix.com>]

On Sun, Mar 05, 2000 at 02:03:28AM -0500, Walt Mankowski wrote:
> 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.

Don't remind me... :-/  Why am I reminded of that silly python banner ad....

> > 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.  :-)

Thank you.  I can't believe I didn't think to ask here... :-)

> > 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.

I don't remember saying anything about 'complexity'.  Or purchasing
issues, for that matter... :-)

dave

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