From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jul 13 22:55:17 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 36DD537B401 for ; Sun, 13 Jul 2003 22:55:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from srv1.cosmo-project.de (srv1.cosmo-project.de [213.83.6.106]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A3C6D43F93 for ; Sun, 13 Jul 2003 22:55:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from andreas@klemm.apsfilter.org) Received: from srv1.cosmo-project.de (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by srv1.cosmo-project.de (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h6E5t9hR065766 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NO); Mon, 14 Jul 2003 07:55:13 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from andreas@klemm.apsfilter.org) Received: (from uucp@localhost)h6E5t8ap065765; Mon, 14 Jul 2003 07:55:08 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from andreas@klemm.apsfilter.org) Received: from titan.klemm.apsfilter.org (localhost.klemm.apsfilter.org [127.0.0.1]) by klemm.apsfilter.org (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h6E5owTv020838; Mon, 14 Jul 2003 07:51:05 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from andreas@titan.klemm.apsfilter.org) Received: (from andreas@localhost) by titan.klemm.apsfilter.org (8.12.9/8.12.9/Submit) id h6E5onPV020837; Mon, 14 Jul 2003 07:50:49 +0200 (CEST) Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2003 07:50:49 +0200 From: Andreas Klemm To: Paul Robinson Message-ID: <20030714055049.GA20757@titan.klemm.apsfilter.org> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20030625214311.00e5e240@localhost> <20030626010357.J508@hub.org> <20030626110336.GW34365@iconoplex.co.uk> <20030626113553.GA53078@packet.org.uk> <20030626115133.GA57378@iconoplex.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030626115133.GA57378@iconoplex.co.uk> X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.1-CURRENT X-Disclaimer: A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i cc: FreeBSD Chat Subject: Re: RMS says: "Use BSD, for goodness sake!" X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2003 05:55:17 -0000 On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 12:51:33PM +0100, Paul Robinson wrote: > On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 12:35:53PM +0100, Peter McGarvey wrote: > > > * Paul Robinson [2003-06-26 12:04:33 BST]: > > > awk - encourage people to port their code away from awk. Big. > > > > Does anyone actually USE awk? > > Yes. > > > Other than to filter columns that is. > > That's exactly what it's used for. I haven't seen anybody use awk for more > than a command line `awk '{print $4, $6}'` in years. I know one guy who uses > it for other stuff, and he's moving it all to perl anyway. If we were to > write a 'colprint' command that would do the same thing, most people would > not notice the difference if it went. Thats not true, I still use awk because its _there_, its not bloated and does for smaller things exactly what I want. Perl is nice, but why should I use something bloated, when a tool with a smaller memory footprint does the job well ? Andreas /// -- Andreas Klemm - Powered by FreeBSD 4.8-STABLE Need a magic printfilter today ? -> http://www.apsfilter.org/