Date: Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:18:05 +0100 From: Christoph Sold <christoph.sold@pk.she.de> To: Sue Blake <sue@welearn.com.au> Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Let's compare notes Message-ID: <l03130300b13fe8a2f3af@[194.45.219.71]> In-Reply-To: <19980325161155.32896@welearn.com.au>
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At 6:11 Uhr +0100 25.03.1998, Sue Blake wrote: >Right after you installed FreeBSD, logged in and sat there at >the prompt, what's the first thing you ever did? :-) installed XFree86. >Then what was the first thing you had to sit down and learn about? regular expressions. it was a bitch to do, being used to the more fancy regexp language fo Apples MPW I was used to before. >How did you you learn it? What resources (documents, friends, whatever) >did you use? How did you find the resources? "Learning by trying" -- I already knew the concepts, so I tried, being unable to finde any written hints. I used a directory full of null-length files with different names to try the regexp's out -- boy, how unhappy I was later on when I learned tcsh doesn't neccessarily agree with find in terms of regexp syntax. >Did you enjoy it? How long did it take to learn? Well, I guess learning just a news syntax is always boring. I'm still learning -- after using regexps for about two years on various 'nixes. -Christoph Sold -------------------------- Christoph "Cheasy" Sold, Am Bahnweiher 13 D-67105 Schifferstadt, Germany <mailto:christoph.sold@pk.she.de> <*> <Phone? Hah!> <*> <Fax? Nope!> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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