On Fri, Mar 7, 2008 at 10:51 AM, Alec Joseph Rivera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hehehe.. Some people are geeks about something I guess, and that's a > good thing. What seems like waste of effort and time for others may > actually be what makes a person feel good about himself. Feeling good is > what drives you to pursue new stuff to break and learn (well, hackers > and would be hackers, at least). > > The brain exercise is also good. Learning and mastering about a similar > utility is necessary to compare and see what's best for a given > situation. The brain then learns to learn new stuff faster because it > grows to understand patterns and abstractions.
True that. But if you're going to exert the effort, why not spend it on something with a higher power to weight ratio? The OP can start with Perl one-liners to do his sed or awk work, then graduate to longer scripts. Unless, he really has a compelling reason, like he has a 1990s or older Unix with no tools to build Perl with. > Imagine the people who mastered Vulcan or Quenya :-) Well these people did it for their own entertainment... can't compare. But if you really want to learn a difficult new language, why not Mandarin Chinese, Arabic or Hebrew? _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
