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That's a lovely sentiment, and a great one to base a language that has an emphasis on instruction and readability on. But unless you also wish to argue that "t

by _jal 7y ago

That's a lovely sentiment, and a great one to base a language that has an emphasis on instruction and readability on. But unless you also wish to argue that "there should be preferably only one programming language", it also follows that there are other sentiments upon which to base languages. Here's one that seems to fit the continuing analogy: TMTOWTDI. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There's_more_than_one_way_to_do_it https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There's_more_than_one_way_to_d... Now, you may not like that one, and that's fair. I frankly like Python less the more I use it, but it still has its place in my toolkit.

metalliqaz 7y ago
The world has room for multiple philosophies, and that's a good thing. I happen to prefer PEP20 to TMTOWTDI, and Python to Perl, as might be expected. I wasn't trying to say that there should only be one programming language, and I don't think it follows from the statement I quoted. I take it more like this: You use the correct tool for the job, and if there are inferior tools then just get rid of them. In the context of the discussion, I happen to think that one packet filter/firewall in an OS is the correct number, unless each has significantly different uses. Such is not the case in FreeBSD.