On Mon, Dec 03, 2001 at 03:37:15PM +0000, Andy Wardley wrote: >In this world there are two kinds of people. Packers and Mappers.
I'd find this whole argument (see http://www.reciprocality.org/ if you haven't met it before) a great deal more convincing if it weren't so obvious that every reader is meant to consider himself a mapper. >Packers do what they're told. They use XML, they use Java, they use >Microsoft Word for Windows and PowerPoint. > >Mappers use Perl. It's not regular. It's not "simple" (like (Lisp())). It's >not "Industry Standard, Enterprise Edition Buzzword Compliant". OK, here's a different overgeneralisation, which I think is also valid to some extent. (Yes, I'm sure there are lots of exceptions both ways...) The people I know who use Java use it because they were told to (university course or job), or because they thought it would get them a good job. The people I know who use Perl use it because they thought it looked like fun. Now, if you wanted to suggest personality types based on _number_ of programming languages known, you might get me more on your side... -- He's a lounge-singing hunchbacked assassin in drag. She's a violent nymphomaniac vampire from a secret island of warrior women. They fight crime!
