Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!helios.physics.utoronto.ca!ists!newshub.ccs.yorku.ca!newshub.ccs.yorku.ca!oz From: oz@ursa.ccs.yorku.ca (Ozan Yigit) Subject: Re: ap In-Reply-To: Tom Christiansen's message of Wed, 05 Jun 1991 01: 36:32 GMT Message-ID: Sender: news@newshub.ccs.yorku.ca (USENET News System) Organization: York U. Communications Research & Development References: <16852@helios.TAMU.EDU> <1991Jun04.182921.1685@convex.com> <16867@helios.TAMU.EDU> <1991Jun05.013632.3198@convex.com> Date: Fri, 14 Jun 1991 15:32:38 GMT Tom Christiansen writes: You're obviously a small-is-beautiful person, one valuing aesthetics over utility. Fine. This is utterly silly. Just because one language designer* could not pull it off doesn't mean size, aesthetics and utility are incompatible. If you must have an excuse to justify syntactic and semantic mess with a kitchen sink attachment, try to think up something more creative. oz --- In seeking the unattainable, simplicity | Internet: oz@nexus.yorku.ca only gets in the way. -- Alan J. Perlis | Uucp: utai/utzoo!yunexus!oz 1