Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Joy of this, Joy of that Date: 24 Nov 2024 05:14:31 GMT Lines: 11 Message-ID: References: <6iKdnTQOKNh6AqD6nZ2dnZfqn_idnZ2d@earthlink.com> <871pz4osys.fsf@comcast.net.invalid> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net mElslx1EHgKVPKalzeVgQgdjNSZZRxRnowePdKZBxMWn/1NFHo Cancel-Lock: sha1:9DdjxcHy+kqkGePOCGeojbC46Lo= sha256:2JhLlvk0zu4oq5ke0IIEGlTqbL97MGM+b8oYN+KTV8A= User-Agent: Pan/0.149 (Bellevue; 4c157ba) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:61299 On Sat, 23 Nov 2024 20:23:47 -0500, 186282@ud0s4.net wrote: > "Feature creep" ... you keep having to figure out how to jam new > stuff into the middle of the old stuff until you just have a total > MESS. That's when you're supposed to totally re-do, or abandon, but > Perl was already too well 'established' so they were stuck with > what/how ' came before. You call it Raku and go post-apocalyptic. With Wall's religious background he uses apocalypse in its original meaning but I think most of the world takes it it the walking dead context.