Path: csiph.com!au2pb.net!feeder.erje.net!1.eu.feeder.erje.net!news.roellig-ltd.de!open-news-network.org!border2.nntp.ams1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!buffer2.nntp.ams1.giganews.com!local2.nntp.ams1.giganews.com!nntp.brightview.co.uk!news.brightview.co.uk.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 12 Sep 2015 00:54:18 -0500 From: Gareth Owen Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: "Know Your Language: C Rules Everything Around Me (Part One)" References: <87a8svluqc.fsf@bsb.me.uk> <2e35514d-e711-4a6e-a72a-93f852e2bcc5@googlegroups.com> <40a9707d-5824-4502-a2a3-469c03bdf058@googlegroups.com> <030adb8f-1d5a-4ab3-a66f-64ab0a131d4f@googlegroups.com> <55f16897.3768328@news.xs4all.nl> <9a2de3ac-eb1f-4cbc-956c-dd5f0fc71e80@googlegroups.com> <78fec807-5aa4-463b-8855-d062e03c4d57@googlegroups.com> <3155d030-ecdd-4c8d-884b-bc5de8123706@googlegroups.com> Date: Sat, 12 Sep 2015 06:54:15 +0100 Message-ID: <871te4faig.fsf@gmail.com> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:StM4Bjzs8JgNi/v2tHWFevy/AAQ= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Lines: 30 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-Trace: sv3-EBMHm9ScPjVSgr/dEkwAqVFHwYxEWTCQEomP5r4KdmI7tQogbQm33XtigayWFI8JJ4Ff3WqwwHlrNPG!Yd8ZrUDo4yr2HuoN61DMxi80kb6pjkn7aI20jSIntqO8BBY2PdzRGSHi8x0/UfEnKjQGMw== X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 2915 Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.c:70318 Malcolm McLean writes: > On Friday, September 11, 2015 at 2:59:34 PM UTC+1, David Brown wrote: >> >> > 'sed' and 'grep' seem to do the sort of text processing that anyone can >> > knock up using the nearest scripting language. That's if they aren't >> > already part of a text editor. >> >> Here is an example of sed in a Makefile : >> >> sed -i 's,\($*\)\.o[ :]*,\1.o $$@ : ,g' $$@ >> > Says it all, really. I speak English, an incredibly baroque language full of idiom, arcane rules and weirdness that looks and sounds totally incomprehensible to non-speakers. My son communicates mainly by pointing and guttural noises.[0] I know which one of us is capable of efficiently communicating complicated concepts. Complex ideas like "Find all the source files below is the point and open all of them in the GUI at the line at which they first contain the word @TODO" An ugly command line is ugly and hard to learn, but its a hell of a lot better than "the software can't automate that, you'll have to do it by hand". [0] which is worrying, as he's 23[1]