[aklug] Re: bash sucks

On Sat, 4 Feb 2012, Tim Johnson wrote:

> I worked for years with rebol. Rebol was developed in the 90's by
> a (then) well-financed team headed by Carl Sassenrath, who had a
> lot of cred by being the lead programmer of the Amiga OS. It is a
> very well-designed programming language and it never went
> anywhere. I would say that that the weakness of rebol was the lack
> of promotion by the developer. (I (sort of) knew/know him).
> So rebol never went anywhere and I don't use it any more except
> for a few utilities.

:-) If Microsoft has taught us anything technical superiority != market
superiority.

> On the other hand, there's PHP (ick!) No doubt it is the most used
> programming language on the planet and with it being a component
> of Facebook. Yet PHP was well-recognized back when facebook was
> first developed.
>
> I think it would make a good case study to see how PHP became a
> success. I like to compare PHP to Bud Light. Everybody drinks it
> 'cuz everybody drinks it. Only Bud Light doesn't mix code, data,
> and presentation into an ungodly mess and make exploits easy.
>
> Time for a Guinness. Oh, it's morning ...

Or a Murphy's...

         --Arthur Corliss
           Live Free or Die
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Received on Sat Feb 4 12:44:53 2012