Re: RH8 apt-get weirdness

[Mike Cash <nze0005@globaleyes.net>]

mike808@users.sourceforge.net wrote:
>> Mike Cash <nze0005@globaleyes.net> wrote ..

>>After all, would you call Linux a "Unix-wannabe OS?
> 
> 
> Yes I would. Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. Linus is attributed to writing Linux as a Minix-inspired Unix clone.
> c.f. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linus_Torvalds

Actually, I would too.  But the point is, it has still done us much 
good, despite similar products existing at the time.  "Wannabe" made it 
sound like you were denigrating Ruby/Lua for being similar to Perl.

>>Also, in the case of Ruby, and looks like Lua as well, they originated
>>in other countries, unlike Perl.
> 
> 
> Wouldn't be the first time cheap knockoffs have come from abroad. :=)
> 
> Or are you implying that something originating in the U.S. is either somehow inferior 
 > or that origination elsewhere is somehow superior? In what measurable 
way with what criteria?

My point was, given that their culture had a different spoken/written 
language, and thus perhaps a different type of thinking, a perl-type 
language for their own, rather than conforming to English thought 
process, would be understandable, instead of automatically interpreting 
the existence of Ruby/Lua as the work of some silly wannabe trying to 
become the next Larry Wall.

So in summary, no, it's not "superior," it's just not inferior just 
because we have Perl, and given that different languages can lead people 
to think differently, thus leading to different programs that may do 
essentially the same thing, but for a different crowd.

In closing, Tim Toady.

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