The truth of the matter is that it's the customers who have taken the industry down this so called "headlong dive".
Contrarily, you could argue that if the industry tried to expand its customer base far beyond sports, JRPG, and FPS fans, it might have better success selling outside of those niches.
You need a fairly recent version of ExtUtils::MakeMaker. Perhaps upgrading that (as root) will help. Otherwise, the PREFIX option exists in older versions, but it doesn't work the way almost everyone assumes it does.
The PC is everywhere for the same reason that paved roads are everywhere. The market became big enough and strong enough to bear the cost. That is Gate's achievement.
Bill Gates worked at IBM, on the PC? That was his idea?
Trade a penny in freedom of block layout and get back a pound in consistency and readability.
Any decent editor can reindent code. No editor can improve poor symbol names. The latter has much, much more to do with maintainability than indentation.
And if you agree that complexity is bad, surely you realize that Perl encourages it...
I don't realize that. Can you explain?
All I know is that it's impossible for Chinese people to communicate because someone who never learned the pictographs can't write a post-modern novel within a week of starting to learn Mandarin.
... python's native OO syntax and good GUI support via wxPython and the like make it a useful tool for a developer to have.
wxPython I give you (and I throw in py2exe for free, because it's useful), but "native OO syntax"... not really so much. Declaring parameters in signatures is nice (except that you don't get the invocant), but static default values, ouch.
Sometimes it takes me several minutes to even understand what the heck a perl script (even one of mine) is trying to do. Perl just... doesn't lead you to the most readable solutions.
Hasty generalization. Perl didn't lead you to the most readable solutions. That's fine; personal taste is a big factor in language preference. However, I (and plenty of other good coders I know) write maintainable Perl.
The real problem with Perl is that Larry Wall is slowly losing his mind, adding features that nobody asked for; a good example is the new, backwards-incompatible regexps. (Don't go off that there'll be a compatibility mode; that's beside the point. The hubris needed to upend this core part of the language is pretty astonishing.)
I assume you've never used Perl 6 rules. I have. They are so much more powerful and usable than Perl regexes that they deserved a different name.
Also, he seems to be spending a lot of time with the Parrot rehosting, something else that is (perhaps) of dubious value.
No, he's not. That's Allison and Patrick and me. What gave you the idea that Larry worked on Parrot?
You're right, I (inadvertently) changed the question. I apologize; please let me rephrase.
Please share the results a survey which presents people with the option of either using the command line or reinstalling their operating system. Let's throw out the question right now of whether you can even diagnose or fix Windows from the command line.
If you're correct--that people are so overwhelmingly afraid of using the command line that they would rather reinstall Windows--then it should be very easy to prove me wrong.
Again, I asked for a survey, not random anecdotes.
I worked as a system administrator. I am fully aware of how computer illiterate business professionals can be.
Your point about Apple doesn't matter. Your point that you consider Windows easy to install doesn't matter. I was talking about installing operating systems.
Again, please point me to any survey that shows that 95% people want to install any operating system.
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That's idiotic!
(I hope you understand by the context that I meant "brilliant" by "idiotic" in the previous sentence and "silly" by "brilliant" in this sentence.)
Have you used Debian or a Debian derivative? This hasn't been a problem with those distributions in over a decade.
Contrarily, you could argue that if the industry tried to expand its customer base far beyond sports, JRPG, and FPS fans, it might have better success selling outside of those niches.
You need a fairly recent version of ExtUtils::MakeMaker. Perhaps upgrading that (as root) will help. Otherwise, the PREFIX option exists in older versions, but it doesn't work the way almost everyone assumes it does.
Bill Gates worked at IBM, on the PC? That was his idea?
See the INSTALL_BASE argument to MakeMaker.
Any decent editor can reindent code. No editor can improve poor symbol names. The latter has much, much more to do with maintainability than indentation.
I don't realize that. Can you explain?
All I know is that it's impossible for Chinese people to communicate because someone who never learned the pictographs can't write a post-modern novel within a week of starting to learn Mandarin.
wxPython I give you (and I throw in py2exe for free, because it's useful), but "native OO syntax"... not really so much. Declaring parameters in signatures is nice (except that you don't get the invocant), but static default values, ouch.
Perl Expanded a Regex Language too, but that still doesn't make it an acronym.
You keep using that word ("everything"). I do not think it means what you think it means.
Why not try writing some Perl 6 code? I did that a couple of years ago. Perl 6 feels very perlish to me, even more natural than Perl 5.
Hasty generalization. Perl didn't lead you to the most readable solutions. That's fine; personal taste is a big factor in language preference. However, I (and plenty of other good coders I know) write maintainable Perl.
I assume you've never used Perl 6 rules. I have. They are so much more powerful and usable than Perl regexes that they deserved a different name.
No, he's not. That's Allison and Patrick and me. What gave you the idea that Larry worked on Parrot?
The Apocalypses and Synopses (which somehow you managed to quote without reading the surrounding context) explain the reasons for the changes.
Maybe #7 is "Don't tell everyone everything you know."
The difference is that I never expected Vista to do anything useful for me on any machine.
You're right, I (inadvertently) changed the question. I apologize; please let me rephrase.
Please share the results a survey which presents people with the option of either using the command line or reinstalling their operating system. Let's throw out the question right now of whether you can even diagnose or fix Windows from the command line.
If you're correct--that people are so overwhelmingly afraid of using the command line that they would rather reinstall Windows--then it should be very easy to prove me wrong.
Again, I asked for a survey, not random anecdotes.
I don't know... that x86 binary blob I downloaded sure didn't do much on my PPC laptop.
I worked as a system administrator. I am fully aware of how computer illiterate business professionals can be.
Your point about Apple doesn't matter. Your point that you consider Windows easy to install doesn't matter. I was talking about installing operating systems.
Again, please point me to any survey that shows that 95% people want to install any operating system.
I'd love to see at least one study which backs up that statistic, which is a polite way of saying I think the claim is complete bunk.
I can't believe you're doing data warehousing without ACID compliance! Do you not care about the integrity of your data?!
Are you familiar with MySQL's storage engine concept? It's powerful stuff.
Does that work on different processor architectures?
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