Re^17: Perl 6 ... dead? (no, just convalescing)

I got as far as

...unlike everything else we have ever built, software costs nothing to manufacture, and it never wears out.

and realised exactly what sort of article this was. An artificially constructed, pseudo-economic diatribe attempting to endow an idealogical viewpoint with the credentials of sounds business logic.

The primary premise is simply wrong. To equate the duplication (through copying or transmission) with manufacturing is complete farse.

Examine what is said, not who speaks.

"Efficiency is intelligent laziness." -David Dunham
"Think for yourself!" - Abigail
"Memory, processor, disk in that order on the hardware side. Algorithm, algorithm, algorithm on the code side." - tachyon

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Re^18: Perl 6 ... dead? (no, just convalescing) by Aristotle (Chancellor) on Sep 03, 2004 at 01:01 UTC
Maybe you should have managed to read one sentence further. Makeshifts last the longest.	[reply]
Re^19: Perl 6 ... dead? (no, just convalescing) by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Sep 03, 2004 at 01:17 UTC
I didn't say I didn't read further... Examine what is said, not who speaks. "Efficiency is intelligent laziness." -David Dunham "Think for yourself!" - Abigail "Memory, processor, disk in that order on the hardware side. Algorithm, algorithm, algorithm on the code side." - tachyon	[reply] [d/l]