| Kenny Tilton 2004-08-27, 6:21 pm |
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Pascal Bourguignon wrote:
> otto.wyss@orpatec.ch (Otto Wyss) writes:
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> It's always funny to observe people's contradictions:
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> Last week i bought a chain saw with a
> twisted handle. Perhaps i wasn't
> careful, but by accident it chopped one
> of my arm off, then i thought to myself
> "gosh, this is POWERFUL!". This seems to
> be the fashionable mode of thinking
> among the unixers or unixer-to-be, who
> would equate power and flexibility with
> rawness and complexity; disciplined by
> repeated accidents. Such a tool would
> first chop off the user's brain, molding
> a mass of brainless imbeciles and
> microcephalic charlatans the likes of
> Larry Wall and Linus Torvald jolly
> asses. --Xah Lee
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>
> $ telnet xahlee.org 80;
> Trying 208.186.130.4...
> Connected to xahlee.org.
> Escape character is '^]'.
> GET / HTTP/1.1
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> HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request
> Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2004 01:35:52 GMT
> Server: Apache/2.0.50 (Fedora)
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
So you like my approach, which is to condemn things they have never used?
kenny
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