[ale] Is awk the right tool for this?

[Geoffrey]

Fletch wrote:
>>>>>>"Geoff" == esoteric  <Geoffrey> writes:
>>>>>>
> 
>     Geoff> James P. Kinney III wrote:
>     >> I have no doubt as to _why_ so many people gag when they think
>     >> of UNIX.
> 
> 
>     Geoff> But, the true question is, does he really right perl like
>     Geoff> that, or did he intentionally obsfucate it to impress us?
> 
> 
>         That wasn't obfuscated perl, that was command line perl.  You
> don't name things `%addresses' and stick in extraneous whitespace when
> you're writing for 80 characters.

Obfuscated, side effect of brevity, ah, acceptable. :)


-- 
Until later: Geoffrey		esoteric at 3times25.net

I didn't have to buy my radio from a specific company to listen
to FM, why doesn't that apply to the Internet (anymore...)?


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