Comments on: RE: A View from Elsewhere http://jrwren.wrenfam.com/blog/2005/10/07/re-a-view-from-elsewhere/ babblings of a computer loving fool Mon, 21 Nov 2016 19:37:12 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.7.2 By: Matt http://jrwren.wrenfam.com/blog/2005/10/07/re-a-view-from-elsewhere/comment-page-1/#comment-409 Mon, 10 Oct 2005 16:33:36 +0000 http://little.xmtp.net/blog/?p=504#comment-409 the tool borland makes is called JBuilder. 🙂 when i saw his argument about IBM, i thought the same exact thing. good call.

]]> By: Piers Cawley http://jrwren.wrenfam.com/blog/2005/10/07/re-a-view-from-elsewhere/comment-page-1/#comment-408 Sat, 08 Oct 2005 16:29:06 +0000 http://little.xmtp.net/blog/?p=504#comment-408 I particularly liked the way he came up with these four categories, and then castigated open collaboration products by complaining about the fact that sed and awk have different syntaxes. Which would be fine, but:

It’s completely irrelevant to open source; the original tools were proprietary software — the free versions are pretty much required to have a compatible syntax with the ones they replicate because, well, that’s what replicate means.

Both sed and awk are designed for different tasks so it’s not all that surprising that they have different syntaxes. And, where it’s important, they share syntax, no reinventing of regular expression syntax for instance (leave that to Larry Wall in Perl 6).

Ahem. Does this make me a ‘stupid internet arguing kiddie’?

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