I am not a professional programmer, so I cannot tell if this guys arguments against perl are valid or not, although it seems to me that OO elements in perl 5.x are completely unneeded by a scripting language and perl is not useful for anything but scripting and small to medium CGIs. As for emacs, I do not understand why a plain text editor even having a whole bunch of features has to take >20MB of my hard drive? And in this particular case we talk about an editor that is so user unfriendly that one cannot even open a document ( C-x C-f ) save it ( C-x C-s ) and exit ( C-x C-c ) without doing A LOT of RTFM. I inserted those E-macs keys in this note to show to people who might not know emacs capital C means Control key and those are key combos you have to press to get the mentioned results. Now why do I have to know lisp to configure my editor? Because all CS students learn lisp in school? I didn't go to any CS classes in this country, I had my classes in Russia where they taught Pascal and C, and I don't understand at all why do they still have US students learn Lisp even if most of them are not gonna work with AI. I don't wanna learn Lisp because I think it is ugly and I don't wanna learn any programming language to configure a text editor. If you tell me that emacs is not only a text editor, I will even agree. For reasons unknown to mankind emacs is a conglomerate ( default config ) of an archaic text editor, bad mail client, bad news reader, unusable ( meaning that plain bad is too weak for this ) calendar and a few other things of about the same quality.
You can flame me now all you want, I understand that things like emacs are nostalgick, but it doesn't make them good for everybody, imagine you would have to go around in a top hat just because that is what your grand-grand-dad used to wear when he was young.
I reallly care about being conservative, and I don't care about either republicans or that second party whatever their name is demo...something I pretty sure it is not demoversion. Now I think that this pseudo-christian guy is a fairly smart and extremely evil person playing a moron for the general public to forward some cause of his. And surely those telethingies are just plain cute stupid TV characters for kids. I mean, I hate barney but I don't see him as evil. But if ( mind this if ) there was a kids show depicting a gay character I would be so very against it, up to the point of commiting terrorist acts. I mean, I completely agree with the point that gay people are not supposed to be mistreated or discriminated for being gay. But gayness is NOT IN ANY WAY A STANDARD FOR A WAY OF LIFE I wouldn't go as far as calling it a perversion although I wouldn't disagree with anyone calling it that, exception and making it a role model is dangerous for the society cause it prevents normal procreation.This country has enough gay propaganda as it is, but if we start subverting children of preschool age this is gonna be something for which all of Americans who do not yet deserve to burn in hell will win a free ticket to the ninth circle. That's all IMHO surely
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I am not a professional programmer, so I cannot tell if this guys arguments against perl are valid or not, although it seems to me that OO elements in perl 5.x are completely unneeded by a scripting language and perl is not useful for anything but scripting and small to medium CGIs. As for emacs, I do not understand why a plain text editor even having a whole bunch of features has to take >20MB of my hard drive? And in this particular case we talk about an editor that is so user unfriendly that one cannot even open a document ( C-x C-f ) save it ( C-x C-s ) and exit ( C-x C-c ) without doing A LOT of RTFM. I inserted those E-macs keys in this note to show to people who might not know emacs capital C means Control key and those are key combos you have to press to get the mentioned results. Now why do I have to know lisp to configure my editor? Because all CS students learn lisp in school? I didn't go to any CS classes in this country, I had my classes in Russia where they taught Pascal and C, and I don't understand at all why do they still have US students learn Lisp even if most of them are not gonna work with AI. I don't wanna learn Lisp because I think it is ugly and I don't wanna learn any programming language to configure a text editor. If you tell me that emacs is not only a text editor, I will even agree. For reasons unknown to mankind emacs is a conglomerate ( default config ) of an archaic text editor, bad mail client, bad news reader, unusable ( meaning that plain bad is too weak for this ) calendar and a few other things of about the same quality.
You can flame me now all you want, I understand that things like emacs are nostalgick, but it doesn't make them good for everybody, imagine you would have to go around in a top hat just because that is what your grand-grand-dad used to wear when he was young.
I reallly care about being conservative, and I don't care about either republicans or that second party whatever their name is demo...something I pretty sure it is not demoversion. Now I think that this pseudo-christian guy is a fairly smart and extremely evil person playing a moron for the general public to forward some cause of his. And surely those telethingies are just plain cute stupid TV characters for kids. I mean, I hate barney but I don't see him as evil. But if ( mind this if ) there was a kids show depicting a gay character I would be so very against it, up to the point of commiting terrorist acts. I mean, I completely agree with the point that gay people are not supposed to be mistreated or discriminated for being gay. But gayness is NOT IN ANY WAY A STANDARD FOR A WAY OF LIFE I wouldn't go as far as calling it a perversion although I wouldn't disagree with anyone calling it that, exception and making it a role model is dangerous for the society cause it prevents normal procreation.This country has enough gay propaganda as it is, but if we start subverting children of preschool age this is gonna be something for which all of Americans who do not yet deserve to burn in hell will win a free ticket to the ninth circle. That's all IMHO surely