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Re: Greetings: Me & Linux



Ben-Nes Michael <miki@canaan.co.il> writes:

> Sorry for the stupid Q. but im not a programer (I program when I
> have to and not each day).

I program when I can ;-) 

> Just for curious why not perl ?

Because he probably will have to maintain his code, but why not lisp?
;-)

The above is tongue-in-cheek, of course (you did read up to here
before firing off that flame, didn't you?). On a serious note,
questions like why Smalltalk or Lisp or Java versus why Python or Perl
or C++ is basically irrelevant. He didn't ask what language would be
most appropriate given a spec. Presumably, the most appropriate tools
and languages for the project have been discussed and decided
upon. People who program make such decisions all the time. All sorts
of considerations are taken into account: technical, managerial,
marketing, personal, personnel, etc. 

> Lets don't make the world to complicated, how many more language
> should I know :-(

The short answer is, the more the better. The more languages you know
the simpler the world looks. This refers to both human and programming
languages, but elaborating on this will be really OT.

-- 
Oleg Goldshmidt | BLOOMBERG L.P. (BFM) | oleg@bfr.co.il
"... We work by wit, and not by witchcraft;
 And wit depends on dilatory time." - W. Shakespeare.

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