Date: Fri, 24 May 1996 23:59:59 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: "Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com" <michaelv@HeadCandy.com> Cc: Stephen Fisher <lithium@cia-g.com>, Joerg Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de>, FreeBSD hackers <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Adduser program in C Message-ID: <2112.833007599@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 24 May 1996 23:35:09 PDT." <199605250635.XAA07032@MindBender.HeadCandy.com>
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> However, I think you'd be doing yourself a real favor by learning perl > (and awk, sed, sh, grep, cut, etc.). It's The Right Thing To Do. > It's The Unix Way: use small simple tools that are very good at a > specific task, and combine them to make something better. I was with you right up through the awk, sed, sh, grep, cut.. You lost me at PERL. :-) Jordan P.S. I'm already well on record as saying that PERL is the anti-christ of computer languages, so I won't belabor that point here.. :-) Suffice it to say that I find PERL's syntax and structure highly objectionable. Give me a more structured language like TCL or LISP any day..
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