On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 11:57:11AM -0400, Ethan Swint wrote:
>
> Every time I run against it, I'm still in disbelief that, in this
> era, some of our most powerful and useful tools are restricted to
> one character for parsing, and that one character is furthermore
> restricted to newline!
>
Two things:
1. Our most powerful and useful tools haven't changed fundamentally
in the last 30-40 years, which often means a lot of historical
oddities.
2. You can change $IFS or pass flags or insert commands to work around
newlines if you really want; it's just a PITA.
However, regardless of tool behaviour, it's easier for humans to grok
a format with liberal use of newlines. So this isn't just a case of us
Unix-tards not getting with the times.
Andrew
_______________________________________________
geda-user mailing list
geda-user@moria.seul.org
http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
