On Sat, Apr 08, 2006 at 07:32:59PM -0400, Khepri wrote:
> Chad Perrin wrote:
> > On Sat, Apr 08, 2006 at 01:59:28AM -0400, khepri wrote:
> >
> >>Chad Perrin wrote:
>
> >>I guess it because at this point I tend to see Unix and Linux and two
> >>different and separate things...so it kinda threw me when he equates
> >>Unix and Linux
> <snip>
> > In the case of the new CTO, it looks to me like his use of UNIX in the
> > above-quoted passage would translate to "unix" in Chad-speak.
>
> (not a bad idea about the word usage...didn't you do the same with PERL,
> Perl, and perl a while back?)
I don't really recall. There are really two "right" ways to spell it,
though, according to Larry Wall and the community at large:
Perl is the language
perl is the interpreter
>
> > The Microsoft Open Source Lab should definitely hire my ass if they want
> > to really understand what's going on with open source software. They
> > could do far worse for getting in-depth and timely analyses of why and
> > how open source software development and user communities work -- and,
> > in fact, they often have done far worse. The fools.
>
> I guess it wouldn't truly be Microsoft if they didn't...
>
> First they got to ditch the screaming banshee-clown..Seems they had
> nothing but trouble since he started steering the boat...
I take it you mean Ballmer. No friggin' kidding. That man is a
buffoon.
Whoops. They'll never hire me now.
-- Chad Perrin [ CCD CopyWrite | http://ccd.apotheon.org ] "Real ugliness is not harsh-looking syntax, but having to build programs out of the wrong concepts." - Paul Graham
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