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- From: bmontgom@morgan.ucs.mun.ca (Byron Montgomerie)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: AmigaOS 4.x features
- Date: 31 Mar 1996 19:09:33 GMT
- Organization: St. John's, NFLD, Canada
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- Charlie Moody (chmood@photobooks.atdc.gatech.edu) wrote:
- : Yes, I can get the same effect as in can under unix pattern-matching...all
- : I have to do is use a completely different, much more cumbersome, and much
- : less intuitive (read: badly designed) method.
-
- Anti-intuitive for sure.
-
- : That's not "more flexible"; it's not "more powerful"; and it sure as
- : h*ll ain't any easier. Isn't it basic common sense to avoid re-inventing
- : the wheel *whenever* possible?
-
- I agree wholeheartedly. :) Amiga pattern matching covers all the bases but
- bugs the hell out of people coming from other systems. Good note for AT
- about repeated threads indicating a problem.
-
- IMO, junk amigados scripts and amiga pattern matching and just about
- everything else in the same vein that would have to be described as
- amiga-something. They have not caught on and are not likely to so drop
- them asap.
-
- Regards,
-
- BM
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