[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Lazzaro) writes: > But our version of "understandable" still means a steep, steep learning > curve.
It's worse than that; for practitioners of many languages, the learning curve has a 180 degree turn. Quick: what are the bitwise operators in Java, JavaScript, C, C++, C#, Perl 5, PHP, Ruby, and Perl 6? Which of these languages do we want to draw programmers from? Someone will now argue that bitwise operators aren't used very often anyway. Great, so we make a change that bites (NPI) people when they least expect it; that makes it all OK. -- BASH is great, it dumps core and has clear documentation. -Ari Suntioinen
