Adrian Fisher wrote: > Hello all :) > > Do any of you know why Perl was chosen for LFS instead of either Python > or Ruby?
From an interview on Slashdot with Rob Pike: One tool for one job? - by sczimme Given the nature of current operating systems and applications, do you think the idea of "one tool doing one job well" has been abandoned? If so, do you think a return to this model would help bring some innovation back to software development? (It's easier to toss a small, single-purpose app and start over than it is to toss a large, feature-laden app and start over.) Pike: Those days are dead and gone and the eulogy was delivered by Perl. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
