>>>>> "Greg" == Greg A Woods <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> Not necessarily. I don't know your background, but the Unix
>> mentality is to have a bunch of tools that do one thing
>> extremely well and are easily integrated into one another.
Greg> Another way of saying this is that M$-Windows programmers
Greg> tend to speak in individual words which they hope each
Greg> convey a great deal of meaning.
And this is because their grammar is very simple and limited.
Basically, this grammar only allows sentences of a length of one word.
They are thus reluctant to learn to speak longer sentences, which are
foreign to them.
Greg> Unix programmers on the other hand speak in sentences, and
Greg> each sentence is made up of small and usually simple words
Greg> which are flexible and which may have a different meaning
Greg> depeneding on their context. The result is that Unix
Greg> programmers can say one heck of a lot more using a much
Greg> smaller, and thus much easier to use, set of words.
And of course, this is supported by a highly expressive and flexible
grammar.
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