[PLUG] Going back to Hardy

[Paul Heinlein]

On Thu, 2 Apr 2009, Rich Shepard wrote:

>   But, John's correct. It takes someone willing to learn and not 
> just click, drag, and wear out a mouse pointing everywhere. It's not 
> for everyone.

Fact it, most tools come with choices like that. An old boss of mine 
called it the Chevy/Jaguar choice.

The Jaguar will get you there more quickly (on any given trip) and 
offer you far more creature comforts and features, but at a high 
initial cost and frequent trips to the mechanic.

The Chevy will be slower and won't offer all the features, but it will 
probably outlast the Energizer Bunny, without all the trips to the 
mechanic.

Samples of the Chevy/Jaguar choice are easy to come by in the digital 
world:

   Chevy            Jaguar
   ---------------- -------------------
   MySQL            Oracle
   Perl             C
   nano             emacs
   PCL              PostScript
   NIS              LDAP

In some cases, the Chevy is good enough. In other cases, the Jaguar is 
the only tool for the job. De gustibus non disputatum est.

-- 
Paul Heinlein <> heinlein at madboa.com <> http://www.madboa.com/