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From: tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: General programming questions are not appropriate for comp.lang.*
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Date: 3 Dec 90 05:48:03 GMT
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In article <10279:Dec220:47:5990@kramden.acf.nyu.edu> 
brnstnd@kramden.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein) whines, quoting me
>> We've had a very flame-free, productive little
>> group here since its inception, so let's keep it that way, OK?
>You're the one who started flaming. I was just answering a programming
>question.

Apparently you don't know me very well.  That was not a flame.  That was a
polite, reasoned exposition on why I felt that your postings in this group
hadn't been what the posters were asking for.  Were I to have actually
flamed you, I assure you that no doubt would remained in anyone's mind of
this deed.

I honestly don't think 50% slower, when you're talking a difference of 68
versus 45 percent of a second, is all that meaningful.  I vehemently
disagree that it's worth recoding that in C.  I write dozens of Perl
programs every week, mostly system administrative ones.  I simply don't
have the time to do all that in C, and I will no more go back to using
shell than Pascal.

I'm not out to prove I can program in C;  I'm out to get the job done as
quickly as I can, preferably before the boss gets pissed at the delay and
fires me.  Most of what I program, although admittedly not all of it, is
more expediently written using Perl.

It still annoys me that when someone asks for an apple, they're given a
tomato.  Now, it is true that sometimes people don't realize that apples
don't go well in spaghetti sauce.  On the other hand, if you intentionally
go to an Italian restaurant for dinner and every time you get a particular
waiter, you find that the specials are for Szechuan, you begin to wonder
what that waiter's real motive is.

--tom
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Tom Christiasen		tchrist@convex.com	convex!tchrist
"With a kernel dive, all things are possible, but it sure makes it hard
 to look at yourself in the mirror the next morning."  (me)


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