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Postings from June 2006
On Fri, Jun 16, 2006 at 12:49:33PM -0500, John Adams wrote: > You've got someone who cares enough about Perl to be on p5p, someone who > says he'd like to use Perl for various purposes but can't, and who can > clearly articulate reasons why not. Instead of listening to what he's > saying, you're telling him why he's wrong. > > Could this possibly have something to do with why he isn't using Perl? The OP complained about Perl's expressive freedom. Take that away and you don't have Perl any more. In short, he *is* wrong. If we started "listening" (in the sense you use) to every complaint, pretty soon we wouldn't have a useful tool any more. We'd have a grade-school art project, with everyone's finger painting up on the wall, and nobody feeling justified in praising one work over another, no matter how much better one was than another. Some brains are simply not Perl-compatible. (*cough*ESR*cough*) That's why TMTOWTDI is so great. We can send them off to follow the path of Python or Ruby or whatever, and they're happy (or they think they are). Meanwhile, we feel good about ourselves for our open-mindedness. Win-win! :-) -- Chip Salzenberg <chip@pobox.com>