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> From: danfe@regency.nsu.ru (Alexey Dokuchaev)
> Date: Mon 15 Jul, 2002
> Subject: Re: Package system flaws?

> Traditionally, UNIX lived for 30+ years without need for a
> monster like Perl or Ruby, in the base, clearly showing us that
> sh/awk/sed is a [very] decent scripting facility.

Though I did breathe a sigh of relief when shell functions became common
enough to be useful... ;-)

I've never really wanted for anything since.  Except maybe for make(1)
to have a standard conditional syntax.

		Cheers,

		Mark.

-- 
Mark Valentine, Thuvia Labs <mark@thuvia.co.uk>       <http://www.thuvia.co.uk>
"Tigers will do ANYTHING for a tuna fish sandwich."       Mark Valentine uses
"We're kind of stupid that way."   *munch* *munch*        and endorses FreeBSD
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