From rowdenw@eskimo.com Tue May 23 14:38:06 2000 Received: from mxu4.u.washington.edu (mxu4.u.washington.edu [140.142.33.8]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW00.05/8.9.3+UW99.09) with ESMTP id OAA21018 for ; Tue, 23 May 2000 14:38:05 -0700 Received: from mx1.eskimo.com (IDENT:root@mx1.eskimo.com [204.122.16.48]) by mxu4.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW00.02/8.9.3+UW99.09) with ESMTP id OAA10600 for ; Tue, 23 May 2000 14:37:59 -0700 Received: from eskimo.com (rowdenw@eskimo.com [204.122.16.13]) by mx1.eskimo.com (8.9.1a/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA08911 for ; Tue, 23 May 2000 14:37:56 -0700 Received: from localhost (rowdenw@localhost) by eskimo.com (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id OAA27628 for ; Tue, 23 May 2000 14:36:53 -0700 (PDT) X-Authentication-Warning: eskimo.com: rowdenw owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 23 May 2000 14:36:51 -0700 (PDT) From: William Rowden To: UW Linux Group Subject: [OT] Religious Issues (Was: quickie) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Today, Christopher Twigg wrote: > No, but there's nothing inherently _wrong_ with using Perl to do > your file manipulation. :-) Approaches at which I smile and approaches that are "wrong" are (mostly) different categories. I won't think less of anyone who uses a Swiss Army chainsaw to do their file manipulations. To someone with a hammer, the whole world looks like a nail. Someone else might smile at the tasks I force awk to do. In fact, Bradley Bell's proposed method actually seems to me to be the most direct. I'm just envious because I haven't added Perl to my toolbox yet. > On Tue, 23 May 2000, William Rowden wrote: > > Today, Christopher Twigg wrote: > > > On Mon, 22 May 2000, William Rowden wrote: > > > > I was just smiling over invoking perl for file operations... > > > Hey! TMTOWTDI! > > All of those ways to do it are in Perl, I suppose? :-) -- -William PGP key: http://www.eskimo.com/~rowdenw/pgp/rowdenw.asc until 2000-08-01 Fingerprint: FB4B E2CD 25AF 95E5 ADBB DA28 379D 47DB 599E 0B1AA This is a true story of how friendships run deeper than blood. .