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Received: by cheltenham.cs.arizona.edu; Mon, 18 Sep 1995 11:41:01 MST
To: icon-group@cs.arizona.edu
Date: Mon, 18 Sep 1995 10:26:21 GMT
From: tgg@hplb.hpl.hp.com ()
Message-Id: <DF3Jnx.8Aw@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, Bristol, England
Sender: icon-group-request@cs.arizona.edu
References: <43d0g9$aal@magus.cs.utah.edu>, <43fgn3$1g4@nntp.crl.com>
Subject: Re: what to use instead of TCL or PERL
Errors-To: icon-group-errors@cs.arizona.edu
J.M. Ivler (ivler@crl.com) wrote:
|Consider the programmer as a carpenter. He has to sink a screw. Now he could
|use a hammer to sink it, and it would work, but it would work much better
|if he used a screwdriver. Additionally, the screw is a philips head. Now
|he could use a flathead screwdriver, but wouldn't the better tool be a
|philipshead screwdriver? Now, if he had only one screw to sink, he might
|use a hand screwdriver, but he has 1000, so might it not be wise to
|attach a philipshead screwdriver to a powertool to help?
Carpenters often _do_ use hammers to insert screws; they hit them in for most
of the distance and then screw them in for only the last 1cm or so. Much
faster, and it works!
Know your tools, and use the appropriate _mix_ of tools!
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Tom Gardner Hewlett Packard Laboratories, Filton Rd,
tgg@hplb.hpl.hp.com Stoke Gifford, Bristol, Avon, BS12 6QZ, ENGLAND.
Fax: +44 1179 228920 Tel: +44 1179 799910 ext. 28192
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