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Date:      Sat, 07 Nov 1998 16:03:46 -0800
From:      Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
To:        dag-erli@ifi.uio.no (Dag-Erling C. =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= )
Cc:        Bruce Albrecht <bruce@zuhause.mn.org>, Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl>, John Birrell <jb@cimlogic.com.au>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: "Eek" 
Message-ID:  <199811080003.QAA00477@dingo.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "07 Nov 1998 23:51:50 %2B0100." <xzpyapnuneh.fsf@hrotti.ifi.uio.no> 

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> Bruce Albrecht <bruce@zuhause.mn.org> writes:
> > Did anyone bother to look at the root page for http://dd.sh?
> > To which I quote:
> > 
> > dd/sh: The One True Programming Language
> > 
> > dd/sh is a simple, compact programming language which can do
> > everything although not always the way you are used to. 
> 
> This is sick, sick, sick. These people not only claim that you can do
> anything with just dd and sh, but actually go on to prove it by
> writing a line editor, a web server and a general Turing machine using
> only dd and sh.

The entire Ultrix install was written using these principles; they may 
be insane, but they're quite valid.   8)

-- 
\\  Sometimes you're ahead,       \\  Mike Smith
\\  sometimes you're behind.      \\  mike@smith.net.au
\\  The race is long, and in the  \\  msmith@freebsd.org
\\  end it's only with yourself.  \\  msmith@cdrom.com



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