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All the Perl that's Practical to Extract and Report
several minutes ago. We don't need no stinkin' tactical nukes.
(By the way, do you have change for 10 million people?) --lwall
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agree, almost 100% (Score:1)
I read through some of it too. Agree on all points. However, there is a need for a text kind of like this. I used unix for a year before I understood the idea of small tools -- Unix Power Tools [oreilly.com] was my key to enlightenment, and only in an inductive way.
One saving grace: ESR came close to saying something interesting about vi versus emacs [catb.org]. I found the discussion of the Plan-9-inspired wily [yorku.ca] particularly illuminating.
Unfortunately, because he's ESR, his interesting start ended with him bullying the facts into supporting his own prejudices (emacs rulz0rs, d00d).
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