On Thu, 17 May 2001, Nathan Torkington wrote:
> http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/comment/0,5859,2717377,00.html
>
> Nary a slam. Nice article. I disagree that there's an as-yet unfound
> massive leap in productivity to be made via a new programming
> language.
Someone should make him write "There's no silverbullet" a thousand
times on the blackboard. :-)
the nice quote for those without time to read the whole thing (it
sounds great in the context which is something like "that this and
that and this other programming language isn't that great after
all"):
"A few years back, I needed to perform some data analysis on several
gigabytes of Web server logs. I had neither the time or the
inclination to write the necessary tool in C or C++. I remembered
that Perl was actually an acronym for Practical Extraction and
Reporting Language, so I did a little research, downloaded Perl,
trial-and-errored my first Perl script, and crunched the logs my way
before the day was out.
Now this is what I call productivity."
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