From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <3e1162e60706171925i7110bcb0u9e64c8da99691992@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2007 19:25:27 -0700 From: "David Leimbach" To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] a quick and simple minded study of configure. In-Reply-To: <5d375e920706171658h1edc3824i23a44750d221e954@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <3e1162e60706151818o58471565i3c5bef4487d6f2a@mail.gmail.com> <106eb6113bc866fa7be68b228b07b0a6@9netics.com> <3e1162e60706160834t2a4a9abauab8caec41964ad59@mail.gmail.com> <20070617070625.GA856@shodan.homeunix.net> <5d375e920706171658h1edc3824i23a44750d221e954@mail.gmail.com> Topicbox-Message-UUID: 7ffd485a-ead2-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 No doubt about it I wrote a soap client with nothing but curl perl and pipes glued with a little sh Took about 30 minutes and each piece does a very small and well defined task. If it hadn't been soap based I would not have used perl. That's another reason why I like languages like limbo or erlang. Seems to encourage breaking even serial problems into communicating tasks. Then in some cases if you need to distribute the problem over many machines you've got less work to do. On 6/17/07, Uriel wrote: > I was going mention that a 'word counter' is not two 'Bell Labs > lines', but two Bell Labs *characters*: wc > > And the tools programming model trounces everything else once more. > > uriel > > P.S.: For http://gsoc.cat-v.org and http://9p.cat-v.org I wrote (with > the help of Kris) a whole website engine, including multi-domain > handling, a blog with rss feeds and and other junk in two hundred > lines of rc and awk. After this, thinking about building websites with > python or any other language makes me cringe. > > On 6/17/07, Martin Neubauer wrote: > > * David Leimbach (leimy2k@gmail.com) wrote: > > > it's not short, if you count the class implementation. it doesn't > > > >convey the idea - the solution is not understood unless you > > > >understand each piece. > > > > > > > > > I disagree, to the extent that it really is short, in that it's one line > :-) > > > > So is > > > > word_count(text); > > > > And a much simpler one at that. > > > > > -- - Passage Matthew 5:37: But let your communication be, Yea, yea; Nay, nay: for whatsoever is more than these cometh of evil.