On Sep 6, 2007, at 10:56 PM, John Summerfield wrote:
David Boyes wrote:
On 9/6/2007 4:31 PM, Edmund R. MacKenty wrote:
Note that I'm using $(...) instead of backticks. Backticks are
evil!
But I'm curious: why are backticks evil? (I didn't know about the
"$(command)" trick; I've been using backticks for a long time. I
learn
something new every day!)
Some uppity young whippersnappers think the $() syntax is easier to
understand and convey to newbies, and are less subject to bonehead
editors replacing them with normal single quotes.
Settle down there, boy!
Hey, can we digress a little, and talk about Very Large Services,
Hardware, and Software Companies that *really* ought to know better,
who actually don't appear to know that the things after the "http:"
are forward, rather than back, slashes?
Yeah. Got one of those *today*, while downloading something.
Was not pleased. May be displeased enough to file a bug report about
it. Trivial to fix, of course, but did mean that I had to type in
the URL rather than, you know, click on it (well, to be fair, in my
case, tab to it and hit enter). I assume it works with IE (surely
someone tested their site with SOME browser, right?). And no, the
company who did this was *not*, in fact, Microsoft.
Adam
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