On Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 08:16:47PM -0500, Christopher Schmidt wrote: > On Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 07:56:46PM -0500, Thomas Charron wrote: > > A programmer that doesn't know how to grep and split text strings.. > > > > Well.. Isn't.. > > I know of several ways to do it, but none of them would have worked as > well as the cut solution presented here. I've been working on Linux as > my primary platform for 2.5 years, I've been coding in various languages > for 5. > > I'm relatively intelligent, know how to use awk, grep, and sed. > > Considering the huge number of programmers who are doomed to forever > live and work in a GUI-only MSVC++ (or whatever it's called) without the > tools such as sed, grep and awk, I'd say I'm in the top 50% as far as > knowledge goes for programmers -- and I think I'm probably being > relatively modest. > > The lack of knowledge of a simple command line tool to do what you want > it to does not indicate whether someone is a programmer or not. It > simply indicates one thing -- their level of experience with core *nix > tools. Lack of that is not an indication of deficiencies in their > ability to program.
Easily fixed, All we need is the appropriate man page:.. http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=19990216 ;-) I have that one on the cover of my "Intro to Linux" slides -- Jeff Kinz, Emergent Research, Hudson, MA. speech recognition software may have been used to create this e-mail "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding." - Brandeis To think contrary to one's era is heroism. But to speak against it is madness. -- Eugene Ionesco _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
