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- From: claird@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM (Cameron Laird)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc,comp.lang.perl.misc,comp.lang.tcl,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.java,alt.culture.usenet
- Subject: The first-classness of Usenet (was: Readable Perl (was: Re: Relative Speed of Perl vs. Tcl vs. C))
- Followup-To: comp.lang.misc
- Date: 28 Feb 1996 07:20:49 -0600
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- References: <4e3a2u$eoa@wcap.centerline.com> <4gd3gd$82u@cnn.Princeton.EDU> <4gdol9$5s5@matrix.eden.com> <gperkinsDn634w.MMC@netcom.com>
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- In article <gperkinsDn634w.MMC@netcom.com>,
- Glen C. Perkins <gperkins@netcom.com> wrote:
- >fsg@news.eden.com (Felix Sebastian Gallo) writes:
- >
- >>For you, your job may require Sather or Lisp or C++ or even Java.
- >>For me, my job definitely requires Perl and little but. Let's
- >>not preach to the damned or the converted, it's of absolutely no
- >>utility.
- >
- >I strongly disagree. It has a great deal of utility. It was
- >by listening (reading) in on these little language wars that
- >I was introduced to Perl in the first place. If I hear (read)
- >something that catches my attention, see something that
- >looks as though it might be a useful tool for a particular
- >problem, or just hear enough testimonials from lovers of
- >a particular language, it often inspires me to go check it
- >out.
- >
- >I *love* to hear (read) two people who really know a lot
- >about a language, but have different
- >opinions, fight it out. The result has been a significant
- .
- .
- .
- RFD: comp.lang.meta-advocacy: a mud pit for those who
- {believe/do not believe} that language wars illuminate/
- entertain/produce/... Typical discussion questions will
- include:
- 1. When ML people implement SGML processors,
- how many virgins must be sacrificed?
- 2. Is LISP just a dialect of FORTH?
- 3. Is it obligatory to rot13 SNOBOL puns?
-
- No, wait; let's argue about whether it's permitted to
- issue edicts about who gets to decide where to promul-
- gate rules about who says which lang...
-
- My vote: I like passionate intelligence. I've learned
- plenty about Sather and Perl and J and ... from
- comp.lang.misc. Follow-ups trimmed.
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