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From: Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid>
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Subject: Re: I hate you all
Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2013 21:43:59 +0000 (UTC)
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On 2013-04-09, Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> On 09/04/2013 14:39, Grant Edwards wrote:
>> On 2013-04-09, Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>>>
>>>> But wouldn't it have been easier simply to do do a quick sed or whatever
>>>> rather than to spend hours here arguing?
>>>
>>> Where's the fun in that? :)
>>
>> What, you don't think sed is fun?
>
> Having never really used a *nix box in anger how would I know?  A 
> substantial portion of my career was spent on a combination of VMS,

That's no excuse -- DECShell for VMS included sed!  :)

I spent many months months writing a set of shell-scripts and
makefiles that used awk, sed, and their brethren to do automated
testing and building of an 1100 page document that was written in
LaTeX.  It was all on a VMS system.  Unfortunately, the massive
process-creation overhead of VMS hit shell-scripts pretty hard -- a
full V&V run and document build took something like 7 hours.  We
usually only ran it overnight.

> C with embedded SQL and Ingres.  Please don't ask as I don't know the
> answer :)

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