Hehehe.. Some people are geeks about something I guess, and that's a good thing. What seems like waste of effort and time for others may actually be what makes a person feel good about himself. Feeling good is what drives you to pursue new stuff to break and learn (well, hackers and would be hackers, at least).
The brain exercise is also good. Learning and mastering about a similar utility is necessary to compare and see what's best for a given situation. The brain then learns to learn new stuff faster because it grows to understand patterns and abstractions. Imagine the people who mastered Vulcan or Quenya :-) On Fri, 2008-03-07 at 10:18 +0800, Orlando Andico wrote: > i don't deny the utility of old tools. i use sed myself all the time. > > but to actually devote /lots/ of effort to "master" these ancient > tools... i think that's what migs is getting at too. google is just a > keystroke away, it makes no sense to devote more than minimal effort > to these tools. > > > On Fri, Mar 7, 2008 at 10:12 AM, Alec Joseph Rivera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > i've done some embedded linux last year (the linksys routers with > > openwrt). I was tempted to do perl there, but with 4mb storage, it > > wasn't an option. > > > > There are still situations where you know how to use old tools help :-) > _________________________________________________ > Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List > [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) > Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists > Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph -- Alec Joseph Rivera F S 3 Consulting Inc. http://www.fs3.ph
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