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But ESR is an Expert™ (Score:1)

by Louis_Wu (2993) <chris@cantrall.org> on 2003.11.24 19:13 (#26028) Journal

I'm just waiting for people to use ESR's personal preferences (Python over Perl, emacs over vi, etc) to push their own agenda at companies. "We're standardizing on Python, because Perl is a nasty, write-only, line-noise language. See, ESR said so, and he's a Recognized Figure."
I like much of his stuff, and I know that those waging holy war over languages and editors don't really need his blessing, but think about explaining to a PHB why you're right and this International Man of Definitions [catb.org] is wrong.
Makes me almost glad that my day job doesn't involve coding.

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