OT: base64 decoding

[Bill Campbell]

On Thu, May 07, 2009, Fairlight wrote:
>In the relative spacial/temporal region of
>Thu, May 07, 2009 at 04:46:15PM -0400, John Esak achieved the spontaneous
>generation of the following:
...
>The only religious programming bandwagon I'll hop on (or maybe start) is
>the use of the term "scripting".  I consider it a pejorative.  Programming
>is programming, whether it's done in C, perl, python, cobol, fortran,
>basic, bourne shell, or csh.  I absolutely hate it when someone belittles
>something as "simply scripting" when just as much craftsmanship goes into
>it as if you wrote it in C.

It's interesting to note that Linux Journal's Products of the
Year this year had two categories for programming languages, one
for scripting, the other with no restrictions -- python was
number 1 in each category.

Bill
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