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A poor workman blames his tools.
by joshu 17y ago
A poor workman blames his tools.
- amichail 17y agoSo the quality of tools is not important? Anything that is Turing-complete will do?
- idm 17y ago/me hugs amichail http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=786874 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=786874
- adharmad 17y agoSure quality of tools is important. But you first need to define what it is. Are you suggesting that there is an objective definition of "quality of programming languages" applicable to everyone regardless of the context?
- acg 17y agoA poor workman blames his tools. Not a great defense. Perl is a great language for bioinformatics, and is also a great language used the right way. It's not persuasive to assume anyone who is critical of something cannot use it. Many good workmen criticism tools only to make better tools.