Fair eTale
December 29th, 2005 at 01:21 am
Once upon a time I thought my father was weird for using some crazy text editor that made no sense to me.
Now I have to respond to his comment(s) and defend my decision to hack up a system in sh & company because I find it easy to prototype in shell script, and I have an irrational dislike for Perl.
But I wouldn’t dream of hacking it up using anything but the latest version of that crazy text editor.
maxg
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Is this the computer-age variant of the old punch-line by the 20-someting yr old, ‘I was amazed how much my father learned in the last few years’?
(btw, i don’t like perl either … but i think it did arise from poor performance of combinations of sh, etc. Note that the original system that was the basis for these tools and the concept of connecting them together via ‘pipes’ was unix on a pdp 11, where each ‘process’ had a whole 16kb of non-virtual memory and process creation was essentially free - thus the use of lots of little processes with inter-process i/o (pipes).
dad | December 29th, 2005 at 05:54 pm