[oclug] UNIX philosophy (was Re: vim rulez...)

[Michael P. Soulier]

On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 04:11:49PM -0400, Joe Burpee wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 01:33:55PM -0400, David F. Skoll wrote:
> > I've switched a lot of what I would
> > have used Perl for to Tcl or PHP, and I'm probably going to learn
> > Python when I have the time.
> 
> I gather according to esr lack of time may not be a valid excuse.  ;-)
> http://www2.linuxjournal.com/cgi-bin/frames.pl/lj-issues/issue73/3882.html

    Careful. If you listen to ESR you might find yourself holding Python up
like some kind of holy grail, looking down on any language that doesn't
enforce whitespace. :) He makes good arguments, but I find that I often
disagree with ESR. Python's a fine language, but there is no perfect language.
    
    Mike

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Michael P. Soulier <msoulier at storm.ca> 
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