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Article #7114Re: GNU Script isn't fixing something that's broken, so is doomed
From: Tom Christiansen
Date: Tue, 01 Nov 1994 23:54
Date: Tue, 01 Nov 1994 23:54
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:-> In gnu.misc.discuss, lewikk@grasshopper.aud.alcatel.com (Kevin K. Lewis) writes: :RMS wants a better scripting language for GNU. And GNU is free. If :you don't like his language, you're _free_ to use anything else. If :that software doesn't become "official" GNU software, so what? What's :to stop you from using it? RMS is proposing a standard. That doesn't :mean anyone has to accept it. : : I still haven't been convinced that anything is broken, and judging from : the email responses I've received from individuals flamebashed into : avoiding posting, neither have they. : :Does something have to be broken for people to search for a better :way? Surely not. It's funny that GNU *ALREADY* distributes Perl, a perfectly fine scripting language, and about one order of magnitude finer now that version 5.0 is released. I'll forgive them that they may not have examined it closely, given its recent advent. --tom -- Tom Christiansen Perl Consultant, Gamer, Hiker tchrist@mox.perl.com Lawyer: n. One skilled in circumventing the law. - Ambrose Bierce
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f891f,9bda08f2f068881f X-Google-Attributes: gidf891f,public X-Google-Thread: 1025b4,9bda08f2f068881f X-Google-Attributes: gid1025b4,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1994-11-01 17:30:06 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!nntp.gmd.de!newsserver.jvnc.net!howland.reston.ans.net!math.ohio-state.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!csn!boulder!csnews!mox!tchrist From: Tom Christiansen <tchrist@mox.perl.com> Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc,gnu.misc.discuss Subject: Re: GNU Script isn't fixing something that's broken, so is doomed Date: 1 Nov 1994 23:54:04 GMT Organization: Perl Consulting and Training Lines: 27 Message-ID: <396kes$d4p@csnews.cs.Colorado.EDU> References: <394kll$kso@csnews.cs.Colorado.EDU> <19941101T063951Z.enag@naggum.no> <395rlr$3eh@csnews.cs.Colorado.EDU> <LEWIKK.94Nov1153151@grasshopper.aud.alcatel.com> Reply-To: tchrist@mox.perl.com (Tom Christiansen) NNTP-Posting-Host: perl.com Originator: tchrist@mox