On Fri, June 13, 2008 5:03 pm, Mike Marion wrote: > Quoting Lan Barnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> <actually, I have long thought that C, while the One True Systems >> Language >> (TM) is way overused for applications, especially interfaces.> > > Oh I agree. I knew a guy that used to work here that loved C for > everything. He even wrote a cgi web poll once in C. It would output > the html, then the post would call it again and it would save the data > in a file. When he called it with the url, it's parse that info and > give him charts. Could've probably done it in perl or something > pretty easily, but did it in C, and had to, of course, recompile > anytime he needed to change it. > > I just hate when people latch onto whatever thing they think is "cool" > and try to shoehorn every single problem into that as the solution, > rather then actually spending a few seconds to think about what the > best solution might be. Of course, I use bash for my shell and often > write multi-level, nested commands from the cli a lot. So I'm nuts > too. :) >
There is and should be a tension between picking the best language and using what you or your team is already proficient in. 'Course we're not talking about that. We're talking about people who make no effort to widen their horizons. -- Lan Barnes SCM Analyst Linux Guy Tcl/Tk Enthusiast Biodiesel Brewer -- KPLUG-List@kernel-panic.org http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
