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Re: What design is: 911 vs. Fleetwood

To: Ken Anderson <address@hidden>, Paul Graham <address@hidden>
Subject: Re: What design is: 911 vs. Fleetwood
From: Dan Sugalski <address@hidden>
Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2001 10:22:29 -0500
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At 09:32 AM 12/14/2001 -0500, Ken Anderson wrote:
>Perl, Python, and Java have shown the importance of standard 
>libraries.  Where does a new language get such libraries?  Well, stealing 
>them from C is basically what Perl and Python did.

If you write things properly, you can always embed either perl or python 
into Arc (with proper layering to make it so your users don't see them), 
and skip the whole stealing step...

					Dan

--------------------------------------"it's like this"-------------------
Dan Sugalski                          even samurai
dan@sidhe.org                         have teddy bears and even
                                      teddy bears get drunk

References:
- Re: What design is: 911 vs. Fleetwood
  - From: Paul Graham <paulgraham@yahoo.com>
- What design is: 911 vs. Fleetwood
  - From: Ken Williams <kwilliam@northernlight.com>
- Re: What design is: 911 vs. Fleetwood
  - From: Ken Anderson <kanderson@bbn.com>

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