Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1998 08:14:46 -0500 (EST) From: Jamie Bowden <jamie@itribe.net> To: Sue Blake <sue@welearn.com.au> Cc: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>, FreeBSD-chat <freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Smaller, Dedicated tools and Greg's Daemon News Article Message-ID: <Pine.SGI.3.96.981215080815.18639h-100000@animaniacs.itribe.net> In-Reply-To: <19981215132535.57242@welearn.com.au>
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On Tue, 15 Dec 1998, Sue Blake wrote: > On Tue, Dec 15, 1998 at 12:29:45PM +1030, Greg Lehey wrote: > > The ability to run diff against your RTF is part of the same > > continuum. Your gut just chooses to react differently to loops and > > variable dereferences, although at the level we're talking about a > > variable dereference is conceptually the same thing as running a > > program. > I don't know what you're saying there. He's saying your looking at it wrong. You're already doing the same thing programmers do, without really realizing it. You're writing formatting macros, which is functionally equivalent to writing code to format output on a slightly lesser scale. You are conceptually there, and haven't quite looked at the street signs enough to realize it yet. I don't program. I was scarred by fortran in a former life, and have been turned off ever since, but basic shell scripting to c is still conceptually the same. You have some data you wish to manipulate, or same task to automate, and you put something together to do it for you. In your case, it's making rtf documents for a customer. Jamie Bowden -- Systems Administrator, iTRiBE.net If we've got to fight over grep, sign me up. But boggle can go. -Ted Faber (on Hasbro's request for removal of /usr/games/boggle) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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