Re: File::Find - passing argument to &wanted

On 20 Jun 2006, David.Squire@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

Ted Zlatanov wrote:

[snip]


This and other things you said are pretty unfair. I know Perl, I've
used PHP, and they do different things well. Disdain for an entire
community (PHP or others) is not productive. Emacs Lisp doesn't have
namespaces, does that make it a kiddie language? Assembler doesn't
have <insert feature here>, does that make it primitive?

Yes. Almost by definition.

That's not to say that there aren't times when it's the right
choice. But it's primative as F**K.

Horses can't go as fast, as far, or as cheaply as cars, does that make
them primitive?

You are looking at words, not my line of reasoning. By Uri's
reasoning Emacs Lisp would be a kiddie language because it has no
namespaces and many other Perl features. I'm saying Assembler is
primitive when you just look at features, but that's not the point,
and concentrating on the features rather than the whole picture of a
language is bound to give a false image. Derisive terms such as
"kiddie" or "primitive" are not technical, and I guess that's what
bothered me in Uri's original tirade, that it took a limited view and
turned it into derision for an entire community.

I hope that explains my thoughts better.

Ted
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