Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2003 22:27:28 +0200 From: des@des.no (Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?q?Sm=F8rgrav?=) To: Paul Robinson <paul@iconoplex.co.uk> Cc: FreeBSD Chat <freebsd-chat@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: RMS says: "Use BSD, for goodness sake!" Message-ID: <xzpwuf87ff3.fsf@dwp.des.no> In-Reply-To: <20030626115133.GA57378@iconoplex.co.uk> (Paul Robinson's message of "Thu, 26 Jun 2003 12:51:33 %2B0100") 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>
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Paul Robinson <paul@iconoplex.co.uk> writes:
> 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 u=
ses
> 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.
They would notice that the FreeBSD kernel stopped building.
DES
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Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav - des@des.no
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