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In comp.unix.programmer Rainer Weikusat <rweikusat@mssgmbh.com> wrote:
# Jens Schweikhardt <schweikh@schweikhardt.net> writes:
# 
#>     The First Pure Shell Contest (PUSH)
#>
#>               == Motivation ==
#>
#> The shell is not known for powerful string processing. Seasoned
#> programmers use various combinations of sed, awk, cut and others to
#> perform the more sophisticated transformations, or sacrifice portability
#> by using their shell's extensions, like arrays. But calls to external
#> utilities and use of shell extensions are often not needed. Knowing what
#> the POSIX shell can do may turn a slow non-portable script into a
#> blazingly fast and portable hacker's delight. The goal is to show the
#> absurdity of forking and nonportable constructs when a nice and small
#> pure shell solution solves the problem just as well.
# 
# I spent some thoughts on this because I was interested in at least
# having a general idea how a solution could look like. OTOH, the reason
# why I work in miserably paid programming jobs is essentially because I
# enjoy solving software problems a lot more than dicksizing contests.

Well, this is a badly paid contest :-) No prize money. People are in it,
I hope, just for the fun of it. I certainly am.

In days of yore I've been participating in the IOCCC and it was fun to
be creative, cram every last bit of functionality in a limited number of
bytes.

Of course everybody's free to just sit and wait what the result are
and then comment like Waldorf and Statler.

Regards,

	Jens
-- 
Jens Schweikhardt http://www.schweikhardt.net/
SIGSIG -- signature too long (core dumped)

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The First Pure Shell Contest (PUSH): relativepath Jens Schweikhardt <schweikh@schweikhardt.net> - 2011-08-19 17:23 +0000
  Re: The First Pure Shell Contest (PUSH): relativepath Stephane CHAZELAS <stephane_chazelas@yahoo.fr> - 2011-08-19 18:13 +0000
    Re: The First Pure Shell Contest (PUSH): relativepath Jens Schweikhardt <usenet@schweikhardt.net> - 2011-08-19 19:12 +0000
      Re: The First Pure Shell Contest (PUSH): relativepath pk <pk@pk.invalid> - 2011-08-19 21:14 +0200
        Re: The First Pure Shell Contest (PUSH): relativepath Jens Schweikhardt <usenet@schweikhardt.net> - 2011-08-19 19:29 +0000
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            Re: The First Pure Shell Contest (PUSH): relativepath Jens Schweikhardt <usenet@schweikhardt.net> - 2011-08-19 20:04 +0000
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