On Wed, 2005-07-13 at 10:42 -0600, Bryan Sant wrote: > Translation of Paul Graham's rant:
Nah. What he really means is blasters are such crude weapons. I think is point is also that when all you have or know how to use is a hammer, everything becomes a nail. Not productive. One should know a variety of tools and use the best one for the job. If you read his article, he says that Lisp was the right tool for the job for significant parts of his project, but not all. C and perl were used pretty extensively as well. It's also pretty typical that Yahoo, after buying them out, reimplemented the whole thing in C++, which meant basically writing a lisp interpreter. Those who don't understand something are doomed to reimplement it, poorly. It's always sad to see something that is really elegant fall into someone else's hands who doesn't understand it, and then they pull out their hammer and proceed to turn it into a nail. -- Michael Torrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> .===================================. | This has been a P.L.U.G. mailing. | | Don't Fear the Penguin. | | IRC: #utah at irc.freenode.net | `==================================='
