From owner-freebsd-newbies Thu Mar 26 04:45:17 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id EAA29879 for freebsd-newbies-outgoing; Thu, 26 Mar 1998 04:45:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from eiche.pk.she.de (eiche.pk.she.de [193.98.90.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id EAA29871 for ; Thu, 26 Mar 1998 04:45:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from christoph.sold@pk.she.de) Received: from [194.45.219.71] (ph071.pk.she.de [194.45.219.71]) by eiche.pk.she.de (8.8.8/8.7.6) with ESMTP id NAA19982; Thu, 26 Mar 1998 13:44:42 +0100 X-Sender: pu071@eiche.pk.she.de Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <19980325161155.32896@welearn.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:18:05 +0100 To: Sue Blake From: Christoph Sold Subject: Re: Let's compare notes Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 <*> <*> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message