Re: [MacPerl] Perl Shared Library (was Re: [MacPerl] ports and builds)

[Jacob Steinberger <ldtelgar@realitybytes.net>]

I just wanted to say thanks for insulting my profession, livly hood, and
most everything else.

At 04:28 AM 1/23/99 -0800, Xah Lee wrote:
>
>Vicki Brown writes:
> > ...
> > As regards "just run perl under Mac OS X; it's Unix, after all", I
> > understand that the answer to this is likely to be "Well, not really".  Or
> > as I've been told, the motto in the halls of the OS X development team is
> > "Do not think that this is Unix. It's not".
> >...
>
>Mac OS will never, ever, be like unix. Unlike a clamorous Wall; Jobs has 
>a working brain. When one day Mac OS is unix-like, then I'll take
> an axe and chop my head in two.
>
>I just want to make a few things clear to those who are intimidated by unix,
>and those kids out there who are being railed onto the unix (Linux) dope:
>unix is a fantastic pile of patches and viruses that results from
>decades of brainless hacks by slouches and imbecilic system admins.
>You can always tell a unix weenie by their sloppiness, greediness,
> laziness, silliness, and superciliousness. To those unix zombies: If
>you must unix, go with POSIX, GNU (HURD), (all right, maybe Linux too).
>
>Youngsters: Ironically, GNU stands for Gnu's Not Unix. At least, there are
some
>groups in the unix community who actually care about quality and design.
>
>Don't know what I'm talking about? Ok, newbies, read up:
>
>* an inkling on how unix suck mountains
>http://cbl.leeds.ac.uk/nikos/tex2html/examples/good-bad-win/node9.html
>
>* a morsel on why unix suck mountains (read the preamble section)
>http://www.ai.mit.edu/~shivers/sre.txt
>
>* the GNU foundation, without which, unix don't have a nano-dick.
>http://www.gnu.org
>
>* And thanks to Apple, whose thinking run diametrically opposite of
>unix communities: moving the computing world forward.
>http://www.apple.com
>
>Paul and Vicki and the rest unix weenies:
>
>  "wipe your glosses with knowledge"
>      --James Joyce
>
>Ha ha ha. Take my manners seriously.
>
> Xah
> xah@best.com
> http://www.best.com/~xah/
>
>
>
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