home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Path: xionics.com!wware
- From: wware@xionics.com (William Ware)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc,comp.lang.perl.misc,comp.lang.tcl,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.java
- Subject: Re: Readable Perl (was: Re: Relative Speed of Perl vs. Tcl vs. C)
- Followup-To: comp.lang.misc,comp.lang.perl.misc,comp.lang.tcl,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.java
- Date: 26 Feb 1996 23:14:23 GMT
- Organization: Xionics Document Technologies, Inc.
- Message-ID: <4gtesf$1a5@services.xionics.com>
- References: <4e3a2u$eoa@wcap.centerline.com> <4gb3kp$lu7@gaia.ns.utk.edu> <4gcqsj$8bg@matrix.eden.com> <4gd3gd$82u@cnn.Princeton.EDU> <4gdol9$5s5@matrix.eden.com> <gperkinsDn634w.MMC@netcom.com>
- NNTP-Posting-Host: lestat.xionics.com
- X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2]
-
- Glen C. Perkins (gperkins@netcom.com) wrote:
- : [ Arguing the merits of languages ] has a great deal of utility.
- : ...
- : I *love* to hear (read) two people who really know a lot
- : about a language, but have different
- : opinions, fight it out.
- : Keep up the preaching!
-
- Subsequent comments to this seemed to miss what I think was
- the real point, and what I found a lot more interesting than
- whether the writer continues to use C. I can only compare
- this to an experience I had (unrelated to languages per se).
- I had gotten really interested in installing the Linux OS on
- my home PC, and I wanted to hear some experienced people
- describe what they found fascinating and useful about Linux,
- what causes it to inspire such passion. Having that conversation
- with the Linux community was like pulling teeth! There are
- all these people who find Linux utterly fascinating, but who
- were completely unwilling to try to articulate that. Maybe it
- was because they smelled a newbie, and thought I didn't deserve
- to know why Linux was good, but it's hard to believe they'd
- all think that way. It's a curious thing to me that people
- should develop such intense passions and then be unwilling to
- share their enthusiasm, perhaps only because the listener hasn't
- jumped thru the same hoops they did. Just fascinating.
-