Date: Fri, 22 Nov 1996 10:24:55 +1030 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: terry@lambert.org (Terry Lambert) Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, davidn@sdev.usn.blaze.net.au, terry@lambert.org, roberto@keltia.freenix.fr, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Who needs Perl? We do! Message-ID: <199611212354.KAA15374@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <199611212009.NAA13774@phaeton.artisoft.com> from Terry Lambert at "Nov 21, 96 01:09:31 pm"
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Terry Lambert stands accused of saying: > > It's not a question of whether _everyone_ needs it, but whether a > > sufficient number of people need it. I think that so far the evidence > > indicates that this is the case. > > Not _everyone_ needs an appendectomy. > > But perhaps a _suficient_ number of people need them, so we should > remove everyone's appendix at age 6. Oh please; I think you can do better than that. p -> q <=/=> !p -> !q Perhaps "Not everyone needs tetanus immunisation, but it helps a lot of people, so we immunise at age 6". If further research shows that immunisation sucks, then we can stop. > > I'm entirely in agreement with the basic principle, but I strongly > > believe that we need to incorporate mature and ubiquitous tools in > > as seamless and standard a fashion as possible. > > This is a different argument entirely... it is a complaint that the > installation dependency process is insufficiently seamless. No it is _not_. Any statically-configured system is vulnerable to variation in usage pattern; the simple intent here is to cover more of the possible requirements in the out-of-the-box configuration in a reasonable fashion. > Terry Lambert -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[
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