[Novalug] Gentoo, emacs, and Scala forever!

[James Ewing Cottrell 3rd]

Tux Subscriber Dave Aronson wrote:
> greg pryzby <greg at pryzby.org> wrote:
> 
>> Oh, to be on topic:
>>    Fedora, vi(m), and C forever!
> 
> But seriously... I have nothing against C as such, but one of the
> reasons I accepted (though have yet to start) the job mentioned in my
> previous post, was to break out of the C rut.  I *learned* C++, Java,
> Javascript, perl, Python, and lots more, on my own, but have had very
> little luck landing work in them.  Plain old C has been about 95% of
> my work, the rest being mainly (as far as I can recall off the top of
> my head) shell scripting, Pascal, SQL, VB, FORTRAN, C++, Python, Java,
> and assorted scripting languages from applications and obscure OSes,
> in that order or magnitude.  This new job will be, IIRC, mainly
> Python, Ruby, and Java, with an occasional but much-needed bit of C
> and maybe some C++.  Just what I need!

What galls me is that WE (the UNIX people) invented C++, but it's mostly 
the Windows folk that USE C++.

I attribute this to Leadership. The UNIX vendors withdrew their 
compilers in an attempt to make some money, while M$ just led the way 
and started using C++.

I've pretty much been writing in Perl (and shell) for 20 years now. 
Unless you need efficiency or signal handling, Perl can do everything C 
can do, and with Strings, Regexps, Hashes, and other Sophisticated 
Dynamic Arrays as primitives.

I've learned a similar list of languages, but it's easier just to write 
in Perl instead.

So what happened with BAE and the XTS folks?

JIM