Re: perl

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From: jrodman
Subject: Re: perl
Date: 13:28 on 27 Dec 2006
On Tue, Dec 26, 2006 at 07:46:33PM -0500, Sean Conner wrote:
> It was thus said that the Great Yoz Grahame once stated:
> > 
> > Aristotle is actually being remarkably kind to PHP here, failing to
> > mention the TWO THOUSAND FUNCTIONS IN THE MAIN NAMESPACE, many of
> > which are synonyms for each other, and most of which have wildly
> > inconsistent invocation patterns.
> 
>   First of all, how is that any different from a modern Linux shell (which I
> just counted, and has THREE THOUSAND, FIVE HUNDRED and NINETY-NINE
> programs), which has a bunch of commands (3,599) in a single namespace?

I would say the excusability factor for the shell is a bit higher.  It
was never really intended primarily for programming tasks.  For its
primary purpose, putting commands out of the default namespace has a
pretty high cost.

It's still a little frigtening to do the accidental tab and get: 

	Display all 3346 possibilities? (y or n)

What do you think bash?  Could that really help matters?

-josh

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