Evil, Evil Everywhere (was Re: [oclug] Test Shows 99.99% of

[Dan York]

On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 06:34:27AM -0700, Francis Pinteric wrote:
> 
> --- Dave Edwards <amoamasam at sympatico.ca> wrote:
> > 
> > The bundle of technologies (*pace* Francis) that seem to be most
> > useful
> > have been given an acronym,  LAMP:  Linux, Apache, MySQL,
> > PostgreSQL,
> > Perl, Python, PHP.   A pretty broad vocabulary.
<snip> 
> It's interesting that with the exception of the broadly inclusive
> Linux, all the other apps are Web based thingys. This I object to on
> principle, that principle being that education should be utilitarian.

Umm... not to fan the coals any more than they are already, but in that
list I see only Apache and PHP as being web-based.  Both MySQL and 
Postgres are general purpose databases and perl and python are very
definitely general purpose languages.   Yes, they can be used for web
stuff, but that is just one of the very many uses to which they can be put.

My 2 cents,
Dan

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