On 2005-05-02 16:35, "Juerd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What are the characters around the code supposed to be, by the way? Your > mailer tells my mailer that you're sending iso-8859-1, but I seriously > doubt that. > Argh. Bad Entourage, no biscuit. Back to Mail as soon as I get Tiger installed, I think. > > But of course, I also find it hard to believe someone's actually using > Microsoft software to send something to a geek mailinglist. ;)
I had good reasons for switching to it at one time. Honest! Besides, it�s a work thing. > PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE doesn't translate to LANGUAGE USED BY PEOPLE WHO > ALL USE COMMAND LINE UTILITIES ALL THE TIME. In fact, many people use > graphical IDEs and don't like the command line. > I have nothing against IDEs; IDEA is pretty nice for Java coding, for instance. But to date most Perl programmers don�t program Perl inside an IDE, although it would be nice if Perl 6 had an IDE coming out of the box. My point was simply that people who program are in general more technically savvy than those who don�t. That doesn�t mean they use the command line exclusively, or at all, but it does mean that they should be capable of understanding visual metaphors other than those of the GUI world.
