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Someone who claimed to be John Shen <johns@cnet.com> wrote:
>Dear Professor O,
> Please get back to doing your good work and gently ignore them.
>I must say that your paper (which undoubtedly can be improved in many
>ways) truly has had an enormous impact on all the programmers/project
>leaders as I have not seen that much discussions on any other topic
>recently in so many programming groups.
I personally was favorably affected by Prof O's paper.
Sure, it may not be a literary or a CS masterpiece, but it certainly
provided food for thought.
>Languages like
>Perl and Tcl (well, I cannot help putting Perl ahead of Tcl :-) have
>been looked down upon by some as tools to craft quick-and-dirty
>solutions, yet their successes in mission-critical projects
>contradicts such views (actually they can be used for the full
>spectrum from q&d to enterprise-level applications, which is the
>beauty of it all).
His clear accounts of the gluing vs systems programming paradigms
were "worth the price of admission ".
Perhaps he didn't mention your or my currently favorite languages, (
eg: Perl in your case, Python in mine ) but that was not the point of
the paper.
Read, learn and move on....
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"Hab nun, ach. Philosphie, Juristerei, Medizin,
und leider auch Theology durchaus studiert, mit
heissem Bemuehn. Da steh ich nun, Ich armer Tor,
und bin so klug als wie zuvor. "
Faust
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