Received: from spf3.us4.outblaze.com (spf3.us4.outblaze.com [205.158.62.25]) by sdf.lonestar.org (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id iAJ0QfJC025672 for ; Fri, 19 Nov 2004 00:26:41 GMT Received: from lists.gnu.org (lists.gnu.org [199.232.76.165]) by spf3.us4.outblaze.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6020F53985 for ; Fri, 19 Nov 2004 00:26:45 +0000 (GMT) Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CUwkl-0006P6-Lw for migo@homemail.com; Thu, 18 Nov 2004 19:35:55 -0500 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CUwkA-0006Mc-SO for gnu-arch-users@gnu.org; Thu, 18 Nov 2004 19:35:18 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CUwk9-0006MC-Q5 for gnu-arch-users@gnu.org; Thu, 18 Nov 2004 19:35:18 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CUwk9-0006M7-LD for gnu-arch-users@gnu.org; Thu, 18 Nov 2004 19:35:17 -0500 Received: from [132.204.24.67] (helo=mercure.iro.umontreal.ca) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1CUwbG-0006i0-5a for gnu-arch-users@gnu.org; Thu, 18 Nov 2004 19:26:06 -0500 Received: from hidalgo.iro.umontreal.ca (hidalgo.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.27.50]) by mercure.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id E4B278282CE; Thu, 18 Nov 2004 19:26:05 -0500 (EST) Received: from asado.iro.umontreal.ca (asado.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.24.84]) by hidalgo.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF68D4AC4AB; Thu, 18 Nov 2004 19:25:57 -0500 (EST) Received: by asado.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix, from userid 20848) id CC2488CA69; Thu, 18 Nov 2004 19:25:57 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: To: gnu-arch-users@gnu.org References: <20041116213258.GA16695@suffields.me.uk> <419A7430.8050300@mdl.com> <77F65340-381A-11D9-A1EA-000A959B67D6@seyza.com> <419ABADB.5020506@arbash-meinel.com> <419B7885.9030903@arbash-meinel.com> <419B8347.3060401@arbash-meinel.com> <419B9909.3030504@arbash-meinel.com> <2CE15774-39A8-11D9-8075-000393CFE6B8@spy.net> <1100818446.3025.81.camel@localhost.localdomain> From: Stefan Monnier Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2004 19:25:57 -0500 In-Reply-To: <1100818446.3025.81.camel@localhost.localdomain> (Zenaan Harkness's message of "Fri, 19 Nov 2004 09:54:07 +1100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-DIRO-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-DIRO-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-DIRO-MailScanner-SpamCheck: n'est pas un polluriel, SpamAssassin (score=0, requis 5) X-MailScanner-From: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca Subject: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: darcs vs tla X-BeenThere: gnu-arch-users@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: a discussion list for all things arch-ish List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: gnu-arch-users-bounces+migo=homemail.com@gnu.org Errors-To: gnu-arch-users-bounces+migo=homemail.com@gnu.org Status: RO Content-Length: 754 Lines: 21 > I'd really like to know what that "occasionally handy" example is. I > really don't think we should be emphasizing "> 1 way to do it". I guess > if you're a perl coder though, that would seem natural... for the rest > of us, perl would kind of "rest our case" though, I'd say :) There's always many ways to do something. Whether in Windows, Java, C, Python, Unix, CVS, SML, life, ... It's a worthy goal to have "one way that's known to work". But trying to enforce that it be the only way is just being dogmatic. Stefan _______________________________________________ Gnu-arch-users mailing list Gnu-arch-users@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-arch-users GNU arch home page: http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/gnu-arch/