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- From: messina@netcom.com (Tony Porczyk)
- Subject: Re: Sort problem . .
- Message-ID: <0fqm1cp.messina@netcom.com>
- Date: Fri, 31 Jul 92 06:45:49 GMT
- Organization: Messina Software
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- Tom Christiansen <tchrist@convex.COM> writes:
- >I am constantly incensed by massively
- >UNIX-ignorant programmers who inflict brain-damaged software on
- >the rest of us who actually try to use it.
-
- Yep, I guess this whole discussion about how to patch up a utility so
- it produces exactly what we want is because it was the best possible
- way to do it. You know, this is really amusing. Have you ever though
- of actually treating this as another solution, renaming the changed
- code and using it when it is called for, or would it be too much to
- ask to use something without "wrappers"? What I mean is: Are you
- sure there is always only ONE way to do things?
- By no means I am trying to suggest closed-mindness, I am just amused
- at your single-track approach to doing things.
- To your remark - noone is trying to inflict anything on you, that was
- a suggestion for creating a tool to this a particular task. I suppose
- if you're been trained for 20 years at using a wrapper, then a wrapper
- it is...
- I guess as long as it makes you feel non-ignorant and important, it
- does the job.
-
- t.
-