On Tue, Aug 01, 2000 at 05:51:29PM -0600, Tom Christiansen wrote:
> >3. It no longer has a unix specific flavour (PS I am not anti-unix in any
> >sense) so Mac, VMS and Windows users feel less confused.
>
> Did it get decided that we were *supposed* to make Unix and C programmers
> feel more confused and less at home with Perl?
I think there's a distinction here between the Unix-and-C mentality (which is
good) and the Unix-and-C syntax. (which is not always)
C is, at times, less than logical. Witness the localtime fun: some of it's
zero-based, some of it's one-based, and some of it's -1900-based. All from the
same function. The localtime concept is needed, the localtime brain damage is
really not.
--
"Little else matters than to write good code."
-- Karl Lehenbauer
