* John Porter ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010413 10:17]:
>
> This came across the wire on another mailing list.
> Can you believe the gall?
>
> in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> on Fri, Apr 13, 2001 at 12:19:47AM +0200
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > We are proud to announce the first public release of 'jrgp'.
> >
> > jrgp is a set of free software Genetic Programming tools written in
> > Java and jython. Working with jrgp requires writing java code
> >[snippage]
> > 'jrgp' tries to make easy things easy (through its compact set of
> > features and the developer-friendly tools) and hard things possible
> > (being open to extension and customization and leveraging java
> > strengths).
> >
> > For further details, documentation and downloading check
> > http://jrgp.sourceforge.net and http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/jrgp
Maybe I'm being dense, but isn't the fact that people are
appropriating the Perl lingo (and outlook) a good thing? That is, it
seems to me that a lot of programmers work under the assumption that
certain things just have to be difficult and they're willing to put up
with a lot of pain to do things that in other languages would be
painless. This attitude is one of the barriers that prevent people
from learning other languages -- why bother if it will cause me just
as much pain?
To me, one of the most attractive aspects of Perl is its focus on
usability by the programmer, and the "easy things easy, hard things
possible" phrase summarizes this wonderfully. I guess in my mind, the
more people think like this, the more open they'll be to Perl.
Besides that, it's fun to watch memes spread :-)
Chris
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