🚀 go-pugleaf

donn@u.washington.edu (Donn Cave) writes:

>I found Mr. Manson's case rather well put, plus leavened with a
>superior sense of humor.  As I understand it, he doesn't care for perl,
>for reasons he has in common with a lot of other people.  It seems
>unlikely that you're going to be able to browbeat him or anyone else
>into liking it better.  It follows, that for some people perl is not
>very relevant to gawk development.

>That should equally apply to development of other languages.  It seems
>like it would be more productive for the Apostles of Perl to focus their
>energies on Perl, rather than attempting to suppress other languages
>(scsh, gawk, what next?).

I took Tom's postings as friendly advice, even if he was strong and
thorough in his opinions.  It looks like there are some people who would
prefer to do a bunch of C programming to add a pile of modifications to
gawk, rather than learn and use Perl.  This will benefit those who like
the gawk model, but would seem like a poor use of time for those
actually modifying the gawk interpreter.  Now, people are free to spend
their time doing whatever they want, and if that means adding
functionality to gawk they are welcome to do so.  I would think that
they might be happier doing something else, though.

Beirne
Formerly an nawk enthusiast, now a Perl enthusiast
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