We do not need YET ANOTHER scripting language
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Why not Ruby?
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Just because some clown learned to write an
interpreter at school, he decides to convert the world to yet another scripting language.
Maintaining support for a scripting language takes resources - not just disk space for the interpreter, but also sysadmin time to keep up-to-date with the latest version, versions of libraries, etc. This is a significant burden, in return for (at best) a tiny benefit in programmer convenience. If some kid wants to really benefit the community, I suggest he/she take on this assignment: Pick one of (Python, Perl, Tcl, Ruby,...). Persuade everybody using that one to abandon it and switch to one of the others. Translate all scripts in the abandoned language to one of the others. Persuade all the sysadmins in the world to delete the interpreters and libraries for the abandoned language from their machines. Benefit to the community: petabytes of diskspace saved worldwide, forests saved by not printing more books about the abandoned language, person-centuries of programmer time saved by not having to debug a script in an unfamiliar language, and more. But it's so much easier to write yet another interpreter...
Fighting the system through simple noncompliance is not the answer, talk to your govt reps, and demand action.
Simple noncompliance is not the whole answer
but it's part of the answer. If all of us
spent a lot of time trying to influence our
representatives, we'd never get anything
else done. Our political system may be the
best anybody has come up with, but the fact
that nobody knows how to fix it doesn't mean
it isn't broken.
phunhippy says:
A few major problems here...
1. If they pay for email, you should have to pay for email you send anywhere as well and then we
will be back to having a regulated postal service.
If 1c per k (or less) were collected automatically, why not? The real cost of sending snail mail isn't the stamp - it's the time spent messing with stamps, envelopes, etc. 1c per k would be so trivial as to be ignorable for most people, but would have a real impact on the lowlifes who send 10 million 10k emails (and yes, that's not an unusual number of emails for a spammer to send).
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Just because some clown learned to write an interpreter at school, he decides to convert the world to yet another scripting language. ...). Persuade everybody using that one to abandon it and switch to one of the others. Translate all scripts in the abandoned language to one of the others. Persuade all the sysadmins in the world to delete the interpreters and libraries for the abandoned language from their machines. Benefit to the community: petabytes of diskspace saved worldwide, forests saved by not printing more books about the abandoned language, person-centuries of programmer time saved by not having to debug a script in an unfamiliar language, and more. ...
Maintaining support for a scripting language takes resources - not just disk space for the interpreter, but also sysadmin time to keep up-to-date with the latest version, versions of libraries, etc. This is a significant burden, in return for (at best) a tiny benefit in programmer convenience. If some kid wants to really benefit the community, I suggest he/she take on this assignment: Pick one of (Python, Perl, Tcl, Ruby,
But it's so much easier to write yet another interpreter
Simple noncompliance is not the whole answer but it's part of the answer. If all of us spent a lot of time trying to influence our representatives, we'd never get anything else done. Our political system may be the best anybody has come up with, but the fact that nobody knows how to fix it doesn't mean it isn't broken.
phunhippy says: A few major problems here... 1. If they pay for email, you should have to pay for email you send anywhere as well and then we will be back to having a regulated postal service.
If 1c per k (or less) were collected automatically, why not? The real cost of sending snail mail isn't the stamp - it's the time spent messing with stamps, envelopes, etc. 1c per k would be so trivial as to be ignorable for most people, but would have a real impact on the lowlifes who send 10 million 10k emails (and yes, that's not an unusual number of emails for a spammer to send).