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Re: TCL vs. Perl
Date: Tue Mar 21 2006 - 13:23:13 CET
On 2006-03-21, Donal K. Fellows <donal.k.fellows@manchester.ac.uk> wrote:
> Gerald W. Lester wrote:
>> The problem may well be that a large part of the people joining
>> discussions now have only experienced recent implementations of
>> C/C++/C#/Java and do not have the historic perspective to understand
>> that the small view of the world that they have had does not always
>> apply to the entire world.
>
> That's why we've got to keep on telling them. Help them understand that
> the world is richer than they perceive it to be. I refuse to give up on
> this point...
In this case, with apologies to Santayana, "those who do not know history
are doomed to repeat the good bits very late, if at all". 8-)
- Adrian
Received on Sun Apr 30 02:43:36 2006