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Date:      Thu, 19 Jun 1997 15:55:05 +0800 (HKT)
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.ORG>
To:        jamie@itribe.net (Jamie Bowden)
Cc:        chat@FreeBSD.ORG (FreeBSD Chat)
Subject:   Re: TCL
Message-ID:  <199706190755.PAA00905@papillon.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <199706181211.IAA10652@gatekeeper.itribe.net> from Jamie Bowden at "Jun 18, 97 08:10:31 am"

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Jamie Bowden writes:
> On Wed, 18 Jun 1997, Greg Lehey wrote:
>
>> I won't disagree with any of this.  I just disagree with the concept
>> of having to use different languages for different purposes.  (dons
>> asbestos underwear) As far as I am concerned, there are three
>> languages: (Bourne) shell, awk, and C.  Sure, it takes more effort to
>> write some things in C than it would in perl or tcl, but you don't get
>> boxed in so easily.
>
> So your next FreeBSD book will be in C, sh, and awk?  Should make for a
> very interesting read.  :)

Yup.  I'm thinking of calling it "Real Programmers don't TCL".

Awk
Greg



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