From: Dave Horsfall <dave@horsfall.org>
To: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: [TUHS] Re: [COFF] Re: On Bloat and the Idea of Small Specialized Tools
Date: Mon, 13 May 2024 06:43:35 +1000 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.21.9999.2405130640280.15285@aneurin.horsfall.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAP2nic1zeJG7tkDbUnEMjxUG_TmYLwCQJhfS6Yt+E1w5s2s4cw@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sun, 12 May 2024, Adam Thornton wrote:
> I'm afraid only old farts write anything in Perl anymore. The kids just
> mutter "OK, Boomer" when you try to tell them how much better CPAN was than
> PyPi. And it sure feels like all the cool kids have abandoned Go for Rust,
> although Go would be a perfectly reasonable choice for this task as well
> (and would look a lot like Python: get an object back, pick off the useful
> fields).
I must be an old fart then; the last language I used where white space was
part of the syntax was FORTRAN...
-- Dave
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Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-05-10 16:36 [TUHS] " Clem Cole
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[not found] ` <CAEoi9W7FbGZFhiddHWWqdivGFfgFAj9nsUApomswfP56rqTMpQ@mail.gmail.com>
[not found] ` <20240511213532.GB8330@mit.edu>
2024-05-12 19:34 ` [TUHS] Re: [COFF] " Adam Thornton
2024-05-12 19:47 ` Larry McVoy
2024-05-12 20:13 ` [TUHS] Re: forking, " John Levine
2024-05-12 22:56 ` Dan Cross
2024-05-12 23:34 ` Larry McVoy
2024-05-13 1:34 ` Dave Horsfall
2024-05-13 13:21 ` Larry McVoy
2024-05-13 3:29 ` Andrew Warkentin
2024-05-12 20:43 ` Dave Horsfall [this message]
2024-05-13 2:33 ` [TUHS] " Alexis
2024-05-13 2:57 ` Warner Losh
2024-05-13 5:23 ` markus schnalke
2024-05-13 6:18 ` Andrew Warkentin
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