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

[Xah Lee <xah@best.com>]

> ... [unix's ass on flame] ...

Gosh, every time I light up unix, I got unix folks responding on the
surface level; stating unix fact this and unix fact
that, that they are so numbed by the unix mind-set they never
penetrate.

It felt so good to scorch unixes. Though, it is difficult to do justice without being droned out by sophomoric unix fanatics. Perhaps one day I'll write a book on it. For now, I'll just make a few remarks to help the unix community AND clarify myself:

* Most (positive) facts about unix brought up in this dicussion are true, yet my original mesage makes 100% sense. (Take it seriously and read it a few more times, you'll begin to understand.)

* Never hack. We are proud if we can call ourselves programers, not hackers. (Richard Stallman: learn a lesson here. (Besides, 'hackers' are now understood as 'crackers' and it's hopeless to revert it.))

* Be ambitious. Be very ambitious in your programs. When writing a program from one-liners to mission critical, think of it as a life-death matter. (The year-200 problem is an excellent example of stupidity that sterms from programers of the unix-mindset.)

* Never distribute you software, unless you knew it is the BEST in the world in what it does. You may feel better if you think you did some contribution to the world, but it's more likely that your program is doing some long-term irreparable damage in the computing world. (e.g. unix, CGI.pm, File::Find)

* If you are not the foremost expert on a subject, let other people do the talking. More specifically, don't answer on posting of questions where you are not 100% sure of the best solution. Mail privately if you must feel like 'helping'. (polite version: shutup if you don't know what you are talking about.)

* Don't bloat your ego on public postings. When posting, be considerate that what you write is clear, valuable, and beneficial to the whole group. For example, look at this message. (ha ha ha)

* Study and respect computer science. Don't listen to philosophical farts coming out of Larry Wall, Tom Christiansen, _and_ most 'Perl mongers'. Larry Wall knows a fart about comptuer science, nor linguistics.

* For the record, I never said CGI.pm doesn't run on Windows. (it is a trait of unix hackers that they are not precise and careful!) I challenge anyone that in the 3 or so messages I posted criticizing CGI.pm in the past 2 months are 'valid'. (in fact, I'm so disciplined and magnanimous that I often take the time to discuss these kind of matters to their authors (Lincoln Stein) as the way it should be, not just hurtling mindless remarks in newsgroups as the typical unix lovers loves to do.

* Lastly, I want those hardcore unix folks to think about this for a few minutes: Why did Richard Stallman choose such a 'disagreable' name GNU, and just how much you should thank GNU for what they have done to help the unix community.

PS I respect individuals, I respect courtesies, but I cannot let the moronic unix mind-set corrupt the young.

 Xah
 xah@best.com
 http://www.best.com/~xah/PageTwo_dir/more.html
 "Windoz: a monstrous hack of greed;
  unix: a monstrous hack of stupidity;
  GNU: stamps out greed, stamps out stupidity. (at least they try)"


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