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Perl-Users Digest, Issue: 6934 Volume: 10
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Mon Aug 30 14:11:23 2004
Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 11:10:09 -0700 (PDT)
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Perl-Users Digest Mon, 30 Aug 2004 Volume: 10 Number: 6934
Today's topics:
Statistics for comp.lang.perl.misc <gbacon@hiwaay.net>
two's compliment? <bigal187.invalid@adexec.com>
Re: Xah Lee's Unixism <davids@webmaster.com>
Re: Xah Lee's Unixism <albalmer@att.net>
Digest Administrivia (Last modified: 6 Apr 01) (Perl-Users-Digest Admin)
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Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 13:59:58 -0000
From: Greg Bacon <gbacon@hiwaay.net>
Subject: Statistics for comp.lang.perl.misc
Message-Id: <10j6cmu5lb2u678@corp.supernews.com>
Following is a summary of articles spanning a 7 day period,
beginning at 23 Aug 2004 14:21:13 GMT and ending at
30 Aug 2004 13:51:48 GMT.
Notes
=====
- A line in the body of a post is considered to be original if it
does *not* match the regular expression /^\s{0,3}(?:>|:|\S+>|\+\+)/.
- All text after the last cut line (/^-- $/) in the body is
considered to be the author's signature.
- The scanner prefers the Reply-To: header over the From: header
in determining the "real" email address and name.
- Original Content Rating (OCR) is the ratio of the original content
volume to the total body volume.
- Find the News-Scan distribution on the CPAN!
<URL:http://www.perl.com/CPAN/modules/by-module/News/>
- Please send all comments to Greg Bacon <gbacon@cs.uah.edu>.
- Copyright (c) 2004 Greg Bacon.
Verbatim copying and redistribution is permitted without royalty;
alteration is not permitted. Redistribution and/or use for any
commercial purpose is prohibited.
Excluded Posters
================
perlfaq-suggestions\@(?:.*\.)?perl\.com
faq\@(?:.*\.)?denver\.pm\.org
comdog\@panix\.com
Totals
======
Posters: 197
Articles: 626 (190 with cutlined signatures)
Threads: 111
Volume generated: 1289.3 kb
- headers: 577.9 kb (10,458 lines)
- bodies: 686.0 kb (21,366 lines)
- original: 383.0 kb (12,999 lines)
- signatures: 24.9 kb (550 lines)
Original Content Rating: 0.558
Averages
========
Posts per poster: 3.2
median: 1 post
mode: 1 post - 103 posters
s: 5.6 posts
Posts per thread: 5.6
median: 3 posts
mode: 1 post - 29 threads
s: 8.9 posts
Message size: 2109.1 bytes
- header: 945.3 bytes (16.7 lines)
- body: 1122.2 bytes (34.1 lines)
- original: 626.5 bytes (20.8 lines)
- signature: 40.7 bytes (0.9 lines)
Top 20 Posters by Number of Posts
=================================
(kb) (kb) (kb) (kb)
Posts Volume ( hdr/ body/ orig) Address
----- -------------------------- -------
48 110.2 ( 36.5/ 73.7/ 31.3) Anno Siegel <anno4000@lublin.zrz.tu-berlin.de>
32 53.9 ( 26.8/ 25.0/ 10.2) Gunnar Hjalmarsson <noreply@gunnar.cc>
30 63.6 ( 34.2/ 29.4/ 14.1) Brian McCauley <nobull@mail.com>
22 36.1 ( 18.0/ 18.0/ 13.1) Tony McGuire <tony@paradoxcommunity.com>
21 40.4 ( 19.4/ 20.2/ 15.0) zebee@zip.com.au
20 33.6 ( 21.0/ 12.6/ 7.7) Joe Smith <Joe.Smith@inwap.com>
15 26.4 ( 14.1/ 12.2/ 7.3) "Jürgen Exner" <jurgenex@hotmail.com>
15 26.2 ( 13.6/ 10.6/ 5.7) Tore Aursand <tore@aursand.no>
13 30.3 ( 12.1/ 18.2/ 10.7) "Paul Lalli" <mritty@gmail.com>
13 30.5 ( 9.1/ 18.4/ 8.2) tassilo.parseval@post.rwth-aachen.de
12 20.4 ( 8.2/ 10.7/ 5.1) ctcgag@hotmail.com
11 14.4 ( 7.9/ 6.5/ 4.6) Leif Wessman <leifwessman@hotmail.com>
11 22.5 ( 10.1/ 9.9/ 3.3) Uri Guttman <uri@stemsystems.com>
11 19.3 ( 8.5/ 10.7/ 5.0) "David K. Wall" <dwall@fastmail.fm>
9 16.3 ( 9.4/ 6.6/ 2.9) "John W. Krahn" <krahnj@telus.net>
7 13.3 ( 5.2/ 8.1/ 5.2) Sara <genericax@hotmail.com>
7 13.6 ( 5.0/ 8.6/ 2.9) $_@_.%_
7 12.6 ( 7.3/ 5.3/ 2.4) Arne =?ISO-8859-1?Q?G=F6deke?= <cpyfykf02@sneakemail.com>
6 9.5 ( 5.1/ 2.8/ 1.2) John Bokma <postmaster@castleamber.com>
5 11.2 ( 5.3/ 4.8/ 1.6) Pascal Bourguignon <spam@mouse-potato.com>
These posters accounted for 50.3% of all articles.
Top 20 Posters by Number of Followups
=====================================
(kb) (kb) (kb) (kb)
Followups Volume ( hdr/ body/ orig) Address
--------- -------------------------- -------
48 110.2 ( 36.5/ 73.7/ 31.3) Anno Siegel <anno4000@lublin.zrz.tu-berlin.de>
32 53.9 ( 26.8/ 25.0/ 10.2) Gunnar Hjalmarsson <noreply@gunnar.cc>
30 63.6 ( 34.2/ 29.4/ 14.1) Brian McCauley <nobull@mail.com>
20 33.6 ( 21.0/ 12.6/ 7.7) Joe Smith <Joe.Smith@inwap.com>
19 36.1 ( 18.0/ 18.0/ 13.1) Tony McGuire <tony@paradoxcommunity.com>
18 40.4 ( 19.4/ 20.2/ 15.0) zebee@zip.com.au
15 26.2 ( 13.6/ 10.6/ 5.7) Tore Aursand <tore@aursand.no>
15 26.4 ( 14.1/ 12.2/ 7.3) "Jürgen Exner" <jurgenex@hotmail.com>
13 30.3 ( 12.1/ 18.2/ 10.7) "Paul Lalli" <mritty@gmail.com>
13 30.5 ( 9.1/ 18.4/ 8.2) tassilo.parseval@post.rwth-aachen.de
12 20.4 ( 8.2/ 10.7/ 5.1) ctcgag@hotmail.com
11 22.5 ( 10.1/ 9.9/ 3.3) Uri Guttman <uri@stemsystems.com>
11 19.3 ( 8.5/ 10.7/ 5.0) "David K. Wall" <dwall@fastmail.fm>
9 16.3 ( 9.4/ 6.6/ 2.9) "John W. Krahn" <krahnj@telus.net>
6 12.6 ( 7.3/ 5.3/ 2.4) Arne =?ISO-8859-1?Q?G=F6deke?= <cpyfykf02@sneakemail.com>
6 14.4 ( 7.9/ 6.5/ 4.6) Leif Wessman <leifwessman@hotmail.com>
6 9.5 ( 5.1/ 2.8/ 1.2) John Bokma <postmaster@castleamber.com>
6 13.3 ( 5.2/ 8.1/ 5.2) Sara <genericax@hotmail.com>
6 13.6 ( 5.0/ 8.6/ 2.9) $_@_.%_
5 14.2 ( 5.3/ 8.1/ 8.0) abigail@abigail.nl
These posters accounted for 55.7% of all followups.
Top 20 Posters by Volume
========================
(kb) (kb) (kb) (kb)
Volume ( hdr/ body/ orig) Posts Address
-------------------------- ----- -------
110.2 ( 36.5/ 73.7/ 31.3) 48 Anno Siegel <anno4000@lublin.zrz.tu-berlin.de>
63.6 ( 34.2/ 29.4/ 14.1) 30 Brian McCauley <nobull@mail.com>
53.9 ( 26.8/ 25.0/ 10.2) 32 Gunnar Hjalmarsson <noreply@gunnar.cc>
40.4 ( 19.4/ 20.2/ 15.0) 21 zebee@zip.com.au
36.1 ( 18.0/ 18.0/ 13.1) 22 Tony McGuire <tony@paradoxcommunity.com>
33.6 ( 21.0/ 12.6/ 7.7) 20 Joe Smith <Joe.Smith@inwap.com>
30.5 ( 9.1/ 18.4/ 8.2) 13 tassilo.parseval@post.rwth-aachen.de
30.3 ( 12.1/ 18.2/ 10.7) 13 "Paul Lalli" <mritty@gmail.com>
26.4 ( 14.1/ 12.2/ 7.3) 15 "Jürgen Exner" <jurgenex@hotmail.com>
26.2 ( 13.6/ 10.6/ 5.7) 15 Tore Aursand <tore@aursand.no>
22.5 ( 10.1/ 9.9/ 3.3) 11 Uri Guttman <uri@stemsystems.com>
20.4 ( 8.2/ 10.7/ 5.1) 12 ctcgag@hotmail.com
20.4 ( 3.0/ 17.4/ 7.0) 4 "Scott Gilpin" <sgilpin@gmail.com>
19.6 ( 4.5/ 15.1/ 13.5) 4 Hal Vaughan <hal@thresholddigital.com>
19.3 ( 8.5/ 10.7/ 5.0) 11 "David K. Wall" <dwall@fastmail.fm>
19.2 ( 4.9/ 14.3/ 9.6) 5 Joe Davison <haltingNOSPAM@comcast.net>
18.7 ( 2.2/ 16.4/ 16.3) 2 tadmc@augustmail.com
16.3 ( 9.4/ 6.6/ 2.9) 9 "John W. Krahn" <krahnj@telus.net>
15.9 ( 0.8/ 15.1/ 1.5) 1 vvosen@cpinternet.com
14.4 ( 7.9/ 6.5/ 4.6) 11 Leif Wessman <leifwessman@hotmail.com>
These posters accounted for 49.5% of the total volume.
Top 14 Posters by Volume of Original Content (min. ten posts)
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(kb)
Posts orig Address
----- ----- -------
48 31.3 Anno Siegel <anno4000@lublin.zrz.tu-berlin.de>
21 15.0 zebee@zip.com.au
30 14.1 Brian McCauley <nobull@mail.com>
22 13.1 Tony McGuire <tony@paradoxcommunity.com>
13 10.7 "Paul Lalli" <mritty@gmail.com>
32 10.2 Gunnar Hjalmarsson <noreply@gunnar.cc>
13 8.2 tassilo.parseval@post.rwth-aachen.de
20 7.7 Joe Smith <Joe.Smith@inwap.com>
15 7.3 "Jürgen Exner" <jurgenex@hotmail.com>
15 5.7 Tore Aursand <tore@aursand.no>
12 5.1 ctcgag@hotmail.com
11 5.0 "David K. Wall" <dwall@fastmail.fm>
11 4.6 Leif Wessman <leifwessman@hotmail.com>
11 3.3 Uri Guttman <uri@stemsystems.com>
These posters accounted for 36.9% of the original volume.
Top 14 Posters by OCR (minimum of ten posts)
============================================
(kb) (kb)
OCR orig / body Posts Address
----- -------------- ----- -------
0.743 ( 15.0 / 20.2) 21 zebee@zip.com.au
0.725 ( 13.1 / 18.0) 22 Tony McGuire <tony@paradoxcommunity.com>
0.710 ( 4.6 / 6.5) 11 Leif Wessman <leifwessman@hotmail.com>
0.614 ( 7.7 / 12.6) 20 Joe Smith <Joe.Smith@inwap.com>
0.593 ( 7.3 / 12.2) 15 "Jürgen Exner" <jurgenex@hotmail.com>
0.589 ( 10.7 / 18.2) 13 "Paul Lalli" <mritty@gmail.com>
0.538 ( 5.7 / 10.6) 15 Tore Aursand <tore@aursand.no>
0.480 ( 14.1 / 29.4) 30 Brian McCauley <nobull@mail.com>
0.477 ( 5.1 / 10.7) 12 ctcgag@hotmail.com
0.468 ( 5.0 / 10.7) 11 "David K. Wall" <dwall@fastmail.fm>
0.445 ( 8.2 / 18.4) 13 tassilo.parseval@post.rwth-aachen.de
0.426 ( 31.3 / 73.7) 48 Anno Siegel <anno4000@lublin.zrz.tu-berlin.de>
0.407 ( 10.2 / 25.0) 32 Gunnar Hjalmarsson <noreply@gunnar.cc>
0.335 ( 3.3 / 9.9) 11 Uri Guttman <uri@stemsystems.com>
Bottom 14 Posters by OCR (minimum of ten posts)
===============================================
(kb) (kb)
OCR orig / body Posts Address
----- -------------- ----- -------
0.743 ( 15.0 / 20.2) 21 zebee@zip.com.au
0.725 ( 13.1 / 18.0) 22 Tony McGuire <tony@paradoxcommunity.com>
0.710 ( 4.6 / 6.5) 11 Leif Wessman <leifwessman@hotmail.com>
0.614 ( 7.7 / 12.6) 20 Joe Smith <Joe.Smith@inwap.com>
0.593 ( 7.3 / 12.2) 15 "Jürgen Exner" <jurgenex@hotmail.com>
0.589 ( 10.7 / 18.2) 13 "Paul Lalli" <mritty@gmail.com>
0.538 ( 5.7 / 10.6) 15 Tore Aursand <tore@aursand.no>
0.480 ( 14.1 / 29.4) 30 Brian McCauley <nobull@mail.com>
0.477 ( 5.1 / 10.7) 12 ctcgag@hotmail.com
0.468 ( 5.0 / 10.7) 11 "David K. Wall" <dwall@fastmail.fm>
0.445 ( 8.2 / 18.4) 13 tassilo.parseval@post.rwth-aachen.de
0.426 ( 31.3 / 73.7) 48 Anno Siegel <anno4000@lublin.zrz.tu-berlin.de>
0.407 ( 10.2 / 25.0) 32 Gunnar Hjalmarsson <noreply@gunnar.cc>
0.335 ( 3.3 / 9.9) 11 Uri Guttman <uri@stemsystems.com>
14 posters (7%) had at least ten posts.
Top 20 Threads by Number of Posts
=================================
Posts Subject
----- -------
65 Larry Wall & Cults
35 Execute Windows program from Perl script (??)
26 Parsing FileName for upload
24 performance surprise -- why?
21 using the result of a variable regular expression
19 -s vs du - different results
18 split question
16 How to find out if a string is in uppercase only
16 perl - data structure build to transpose data
16 Xah Lee's Unixism
16 creating anonymous subroutines at runtime
15 how many days ago is 2003-07-20 ?
13 Resizing JPG images with Perl?
11 HTML::Parser
10 convertinga directory path into a hash
10 Performance Improvement of complex data structure (hash of hashes of hashes)
10 Can this code be better?
10 How to randomize foreach
9 Perl, POST, and Redirect, CGI.pm
9 get variables from another file
These threads accounted for 58.9% of all articles.
Top 20 Threads by Volume
========================
(kb) (kb) (kb) (kb)
Volume ( hdr/ body/ orig) Posts Subject
-------------------------- ----- -------
115.5 ( 72.0/ 39.0/ 18.8) 65 Larry Wall & Cults
72.6 ( 34.3/ 37.3/ 24.7) 35 Execute Windows program from Perl script (??)
63.5 ( 22.8/ 39.2/ 24.0) 24 performance surprise -- why?
45.3 ( 23.8/ 20.4/ 12.4) 26 Parsing FileName for upload
44.0 ( 14.2/ 29.5/ 14.8) 16 perl - data structure build to transpose data
43.5 ( 18.6/ 24.5/ 12.0) 21 using the result of a variable regular expression
39.5 ( 17.7/ 20.3/ 9.4) 19 -s vs du - different results
38.4 ( 7.1/ 30.9/ 12.8) 10 Performance Improvement of complex data structure (hash of hashes of hashes)
34.9 ( 18.8/ 14.6/ 5.2) 16 Xah Lee's Unixism
32.2 ( 12.5/ 19.3/ 7.1) 15 how many days ago is 2003-07-20 ?
29.9 ( 17.4/ 12.2/ 5.1) 16 creating anonymous subroutines at runtime
28.7 ( 15.5/ 12.0/ 5.5) 18 split question
24.8 ( 9.2/ 14.6/ 9.6) 11 HTML::Parser
24.2 ( 14.2/ 9.5/ 5.1) 16 How to find out if a string is in uppercase only
23.1 ( 10.5/ 12.6/ 6.4) 10 Can this code be better?
22.9 ( 14.1/ 8.2/ 5.1) 13 Resizing JPG images with Perl?
21.3 ( 6.0/ 15.0/ 7.6) 7 Object Oriented programs, Perl and others
21.1 ( 9.4/ 11.3/ 4.7) 10 How to randomize foreach
18.7 ( 8.7/ 9.9/ 3.9) 9 get variables from another file
18.5 ( 8.6/ 8.7/ 3.6) 10 convertinga directory path into a hash
These threads accounted for 59.1% of the total volume.
Top 18 Threads by OCR (minimum of ten posts)
============================================
(kb) (kb)
OCR orig / body Posts Subject
----- -------------- ----- -------
0.662 ( 24.7/ 37.3) 35 Execute Windows program from Perl script (??)
0.656 ( 9.6/ 14.6) 11 HTML::Parser
0.622 ( 5.1/ 8.2) 13 Resizing JPG images with Perl?
0.612 ( 24.0/ 39.2) 24 performance surprise -- why?
0.606 ( 12.4/ 20.4) 26 Parsing FileName for upload
0.541 ( 5.1/ 9.5) 16 How to find out if a string is in uppercase only
0.509 ( 6.4/ 12.6) 10 Can this code be better?
0.501 ( 14.8/ 29.5) 16 perl - data structure build to transpose data
0.489 ( 12.0/ 24.5) 21 using the result of a variable regular expression
0.482 ( 18.8/ 39.0) 65 Larry Wall & Cults
0.465 ( 9.4/ 20.3) 19 -s vs du - different results
0.462 ( 5.5/ 12.0) 18 split question
0.420 ( 5.1/ 12.2) 16 creating anonymous subroutines at runtime
0.416 ( 4.7/ 11.3) 10 How to randomize foreach
0.414 ( 12.8/ 30.9) 10 Performance Improvement of complex data structure (hash of hashes of hashes)
0.412 ( 3.6/ 8.7) 10 convertinga directory path into a hash
0.367 ( 7.1/ 19.3) 15 how many days ago is 2003-07-20 ?
0.358 ( 5.2/ 14.6) 16 Xah Lee's Unixism
Bottom 18 Threads by OCR (minimum of ten posts)
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(kb) (kb)
OCR orig / body Posts Subject
----- -------------- ----- -------
0.662 ( 24.7 / 37.3) 35 Execute Windows program from Perl script (??)
0.656 ( 9.6 / 14.6) 11 HTML::Parser
0.622 ( 5.1 / 8.2) 13 Resizing JPG images with Perl?
0.612 ( 24.0 / 39.2) 24 performance surprise -- why?
0.606 ( 12.4 / 20.4) 26 Parsing FileName for upload
0.541 ( 5.1 / 9.5) 16 How to find out if a string is in uppercase only
0.509 ( 6.4 / 12.6) 10 Can this code be better?
0.501 ( 14.8 / 29.5) 16 perl - data structure build to transpose data
0.489 ( 12.0 / 24.5) 21 using the result of a variable regular expression
0.482 ( 18.8 / 39.0) 65 Larry Wall & Cults
0.465 ( 9.4 / 20.3) 19 -s vs du - different results
0.462 ( 5.5 / 12.0) 18 split question
0.420 ( 5.1 / 12.2) 16 creating anonymous subroutines at runtime
0.416 ( 4.7 / 11.3) 10 How to randomize foreach
0.414 ( 12.8 / 30.9) 10 Performance Improvement of complex data structure (hash of hashes of hashes)
0.412 ( 3.6 / 8.7) 10 convertinga directory path into a hash
0.367 ( 7.1 / 19.3) 15 how many days ago is 2003-07-20 ?
0.358 ( 5.2 / 14.6) 16 Xah Lee's Unixism
18 threads (16%) had at least ten posts.
Top 20 Targets for Crossposts
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Articles Newsgroup
-------- ---------
79 alt.folklore.computers
79 comp.unix.programmer
79 comp.lang.python
79 comp.lang.lisp
5 comp.databases.oracle.misc
3 alt.comp.software.newsreaders.newsbin
3 alt.comp.software.newsreaders
2 comp.lang.basic.visual.database
2 comp.lang.java.api
2 comp.databases.oracle.server
2 comp.os.os2.programmer.porting
2 comp.lang.javascript
2 comp.os.os2.misc
1 news.answers
1 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
1 comp.lang.perl.moderated
1 alt.disasters.misc
1 sci.astro
1 comp.answers
1 sci.geo.earthquakes
Top 20 Crossposters
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Articles Address
-------- -------
20 Pascal Bourguignon <spam@mouse-potato.com>
20 jmfbahciv@aol.com
12 norman werner <norman.werner@student.uni-magdeburg.de>
12 Otto Wyss <otto.wyss@orpatec.ch>
12 Peter Hansen <peter@engcorp.com>
12 Rich Teer <rich.teer@rite-group.com>
8 Tor Iver Wilhelmsen <tor.iver.wilhelmsen@broadpark.no>
8 Reynir Stefánsson <reynirhs@mi.is>
8 Pete Fenelon <pete@fenelon.com>
8 Grant Edwards <grante@visi.com>
8 Roger Redford <dba_222@yahoo.com>
8 George Neuner <gneuner2/@comcast.net>
8 albalmer@spamcop.net
8 "Paul F. Dietz" <dietz@dls.net>
8 Dr. Richard E. Hawkins <hawk@slytherin.ds.psu.edu>
8 Brian.Inglis@SystematicSW.ab.ca
8 "David Schwartz" <davids@webmaster.com>
8 tassilo.parseval@post.rwth-aachen.de
8 "Michiel Borkent" <borkent@cs.utwente.nl>
8 Rob Warnock <rpw3@rpw3.org>
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Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 10:43:29 -0700
From: "187" <bigal187.invalid@adexec.com>
Subject: two's compliment?
Message-Id: <2ph7a3Fkssj2U1@uni-berlin.de>
I'm hoping someone can clear up this little confusion here regarding
binary not's.
print unpack('H128', pack('N', ~4294966272));
This gives: 000003ff
Why is it on my TI86 I get FFFFFFFF000003FF. This seems more
(Commands: (not 4294966272)->Hex )
Which is correct? It seems more correct to me that the remaining bits be
flipped from the not operation (0 -> 1), but why do c/c++/perl/etc not
do this?
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Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2004 18:13:55 -0700
From: "David Schwartz" <davids@webmaster.com>
Subject: Re: Xah Lee's Unixism
Message-Id: <cgtv0s$sun$1@nntp.webmaster.com>
"Ian Wilson" <scobloke2@infotop.co.uk> wrote in message
news:cgq7ki$eg1$1@hercules.btinternet.com...
>>>> I don't follow you at all. I think you'll find the most useful,
>>>>meaningful complaints about, say, a Ford Explorer from the people who
>>>>drive one every day.
>>>And if they continue to drive one everyday, perhaps you would conclude
>>>that their complaints are insincere.
>> That's a load of crap.
> You're both right but ...
>
> Xah Lee: "I'm starting my own cult to exterminate morons on
> this earth. Two things are on the top of my agenda: Unixism and Perl."
>
> Pascal Bourguignon: <Xah Lee's website runs on Linux, a Unix-like OS>
>
> Is more like
>
> Joe Blow: I'm going to exterminate all morons who drive a Ford Explorer.
>
> Fred Bloggs: But Joe, you drive a Ford Explorer!
The you're missing is that 'unixism' has nothing to do with *using*
UNIX.
> Rather than
>
> Joe Blow: Ford Explorers are a little bit expensive to service and the
> doors squeak after a couple of years.
>
> Fred Bloggs: Thanks for the tip Joe, I see you drive one, so you should
> know.
The problem with 'unixism' is its affect on UNIX, and it would be
logical that only those people who use UNIXes are affected by 'unixism' and
concerned about it.
DS
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Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 10:15:42 -0700
From: Alan Balmer <albalmer@att.net>
Subject: Re: Xah Lee's Unixism
Message-Id: <a3o6j0lbcje3rn7hqu9l4hdf9n5b7sjn4l@4ax.com>
On 28 Aug 2004 03:41:22 +0200, Pascal Bourguignon
<spam@mouse-potato.com> wrote:
>> I don't follow you at all. I think you'll find the most useful,
>> meaningful complaints about, say, a Ford Explorer from the people who drive
>> one every day.
>
>I'd expect to get these complaints indeed from people who drove it,
>but I'd be puzzled if they'd continued to drive it every day.
Not me. I'd just assume that they couldn't afford to switch vehicles
whenever they had a complaint.
--
Al Balmer
Balmer Consulting
removebalmerconsultingthis@att.net
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