-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 At some point hitherto, Erik Price hath spake thusly: > > On Wednesday, July 17, 2002, at 12:13 PM, Kevin D. Clark wrote: > > >[please configure your mailer to wrap lines] > > Is that the customary setting?
Yes. > I thought that the burden of wrapping was upon the client, so that > URLs don't get broken, etc. (I'm not challenging you, I really am > curious.) Line wrapping will (or should) not break URLs. It wraps (or should) on whitespace. Most clients will treat unwrapped paragraphs as one long line, which causes a variety of headaches for both viewing, and especially for replying to, such a message. It is generally considered good Netiquette to wrap your lines at something less than 80 characters -- 72 seems to be a common number. Many people still use text-based clients in an 80-character terminal window (myself included), and this number allows a line to fit all on one line, while still leaving room for a few levels of quoting characters, for when the message is replied to. > >Any sales guy who knows what you know about shell scripts impresses > >me. I know *very senior* engineers who don't know this stuff. > > Is that because they do it in Perl and therefore never use bash, or > because they don't program? (I hope it's the latter b/c that bodes well > for my current job hunt [server side programming]) Shell programming has become somewhat of a lost art, increasingly relegated largely to those who are system administrators. Perl has taken over as the scripting language of choice, as it is very portable, and very mature, and substantially faster than most of the shells. Makes for an easy time writing portable, maintainable scripts for automating a variety of tasks on many different platforms. Also, many who are engineers rarely have a need for a scripting language, prefering to code in a compileable language such as C. - -- Derek Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] - --------------------------------------------- I prefer mail encrypted with PGP/GPG! GnuPG Key ID: 0x81CFE75D Retrieve my public key at http://pgp.mit.edu Learn more about it at http://www.gnupg.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE9NZ0XdjdlQoHP510RAujSAJ977IEUffhhlfllfN+/FHhQIBnBqgCeO7eU M6x2HaW1C/5Db8mKLocyi0Y= =3qxR -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ***************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *****************************************************************
