in reply to Re^13: Reasons for Using Perl 6
in thread Reasons for Using Perl 6

I'm disappointed to see that you've changed your mind and once again want to discuss this with me. So I'm just going to quote you a passage from the Tao of Programming, chapter 3.3, and if you don't like it you can go back to not talking to me again.
There was once a programmer who was attached to the court of the warlord of Wu. The warlord asked the programmer: "Which is easier to design: an accounting package or an operating system?"

"An operating system," replied the programmer.

The warlord uttered an exclamation of disbelief. "Surely an accounting package is trivial next to the complexity of an operating system," he said.

"Not so," said the programmer, "when designing an accounting package, the programmer operates as a mediator between people having different ideas: how it must operate, how its reports must appear, and how it must conform to the tax laws. By contrast, an operating system is not limited by outside appearances. When designing an operating system, the programmer seeks the simplest harmony between machine and ideas. This is why an operating system is easier to design."

The warlord of Wu nodded and smiled. "That is all good and well, but which is easier to debug?"

The programmer made no reply.

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Re^15: Reasons for Using Perl 6
by Laurent_R (Canon) on Jan 05, 2018 at 00:11 UTC
    I'm disappointed to see that you've changed your mind and once again want to discuss this with me.
    Oh, I'm really sorry about that, please apologize, I did not know you were the same Anonymous Monk as the other Anonymous Monk in the other part of the thread. There are so many AnoMonks around here. BTW, that's one of the reasons I am not keen on debating with Anonymous Monk, you just never know if you're speaking with the same individual. Any other person could step in and pretend to be you.

    If you're so keen on debating here, why don't you simply register?

    Or perhaps you're already registered and are a well known monk here, but just want to hide your identity? Who knows?

    Or, may be, you're not the same Anonymous Monk, but just claim to be him or her? No way to know.

    Whichever way, I am not sure that hiding one's own identity this way is very courageous. And that another reason I don't like too much to argue with Anonymous Monk.

    But, I know, this is one of the rules on this site, so be it, I won't complain further about it.

    My last point is to notice that you sidestepped the content of my last answer. I can only guess that you understood that I was right, but did not want to admit it. Thank you for that. ;-)

    BTW, I could also log anonymously on this site and pretend to be you, and make you look silly, or have you accept everything I said before. But I will not do that. That's not the kind of things I do.

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