15 Dec
2011
15 Dec
'11
6:50 p.m.
On 15 Dec 2011, at 6:34 PM, Josh Dersch wrote:
[snip]
Wow, that's so elegant. It only requires spawning two processes, piping to a general
purpose programming language, and using regexps to make it work!
At least you *can*. It's also completely consistent with the usage model for Unix
dating back to the 70s.
Wait, is elegant the word I want to use here? Hmm.
It's probably a matter of taste and what you're used to. From a command line
standpoint I prefer the Unix usage model over that of, say, Windows, and DCL makes me
think that VMS stands for "Vomit Making System" -- yet I know people who swear
using DCL is a near orgasmic experience.
Don't we need an emacs vs. vi[m] digression to make this thread complete?
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