D J Hawkey Jr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> types:
> First, you're ascribing me to a group I don't belong. While I don't know
> Eiffel, or Lisp, or Modula, Snobol, etc., I don't demean them, nor do I
> bitch about such-and-such being written with them (well, not publicly,
> anyway). Many's the time I've wanted to modify a program written in a
> language I didn't/don't know, and learned enough of it to re-write it in
> a language I do know, just to do the changes I wanted.
Ack! That makes believe the comments about people not wanting to learn
new languages. I would do it the other way around, and learn enough of
the language it's written in to make the changes I wanted. In fact, I
think that's a good way to learn a language, providing you have a
stylisticly good example to start with.
I'll leave the conclusions to be drawn about Linux from that to
someone else.
<mike
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