On Sep 13, 2005, at 4:09 PM, Gentry, Michael (Contractor) wrote:
> Voodoo? You young whippersnappers with your bloated GUIs and XML
> and dual-core CPUs and 8 GB of RAM. All you really need is a good
> shell. Although, I have to admit, I like my shell to be running
> inside a nice NeXTstep/OS X Terminal window. I had a 444 column
> window just the other day (yes, I was using it). OK, so I had to
> use two monitors to do it, too. So, maybe GUIs aren't all bad, but
> there is nothing wrong with a good grep/awk/xargs, either. :-)
Heh. I use quite a bit of these tools too, I just try to avoid awk
as much as I can. It always seemed like the wrong solution to the
problem.
You have me at NeXT though -- that's definitely before my time.
Hopefully I haven't given you more fuel for the flame :-)
-- Kevin
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