Subj : old dutch
To   : Maurice Kinal
From : Kees van Eeten
Date : Mon Nov 28 2016 13:44:44

Hello Maurice!

28 Nov 16 11:52, you wrote to me:

 MK> Understood.  Personally I have been using bash scripts with assorted other
 MK> tools (sed, grep, fold) which are far more lean and mean than python, or
 MK> perl for that matter, which also supports utf-8 and has been in production
 MK> far longer than python.  So far all I've required perl for is it's pack
 MK> function for converting pkt and msg headers to binary for nodes that
 MK> subscribe to that mode of operations for messaging.  Internally everything
 MK> messaging here is utf-8 text based and has been since I first started
 MK> focussing on making utf-8 work for me locally.  The same could easily be
 MK> done with python but to be honest I've been hoping to get rid of perl and
 MK> NOT replace it with something else just as overbloated and essentially
 MK> unwanted.  I can't see myself using it ever, nevermind for fidonet capable
 MK> utf-8 messaging.  What for?

 I agree with you, that much can be done with Bash and the other Unix shell
 tools. They are my preferred tools for any idea I get as well.

 MK> Since I first encountered python AGES ago I have never found anything
 MK> appealing about it that I can't achieve with far less resources.  Howver I
 MK> can see it's appeal to MS type hackers given their chosen platform which
 MK> is most definetly developmentally crippled.  Unfortunetly I see that same
 MK> attitude spreading to linux via lame distributions such as Ubuntu.
 MK> :::sigh:::

 I have seen you relating Python to MS type users before. However if I look
 into the history and use of Python and where Guido van Rossum started the
 development of the language, I do not see the relation.

Kees

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