🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <19941101T063951Z.enag@naggum.no>,
Erik Naggum  <erik@naggum.no> wrote:

>like you know all the sysadmins of the world, Tom.  you probably know those
>who agree with you well, but the rest may just think you're nuts, and they
>may just be waiting for a smaller set of languages to work with.  perl has
>reduced the set of tools needed.  maybe RMS's new language will obsolete it
>like perl obsoleted awk?  is that what you're afraid of, Tom?

Well I quite look forward to seeing what Gel offers, who knows someone 
might end up writing a Gel module for perl so I can 

  use Gel;

and leverage off both perl & Gel...


>but it's good to see that defenders of the olden ways are so scared of the
>new ideas that they go on such insane rampages.  it means that RMS is onto
>something _real_ important this time.  thanks for confirming this, Tom.  I
>also think so, but I couldn't quite express it as well as you do.  pity you
>waste all that energy on yours on being afraid of other people's success.

Will winding Tom up increase or decrease the signal to noise ratio 
here?  I quite enjoy reading other people's opinions even if they don't 
line up with mine...

Mike

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