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- Path: sparky!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!convex!tchrist
- From: Tom Christiansen <tchrist@convex.COM>
- Subject: Re: Sort problem . .
- Message-ID: <1992Jul31.115559.11391@convex.com>
- Originator: tchrist@convex.convex.com
- Sender: usenet@convex.com (news access account)
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- Reply-To: tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen)
- Organization: CONVEX Realtime Development, Colorado Springs, CO
- References: <33pmg <1992Jul31.000822.13317@convex.com> <0fqm1cp.messina@netcom.com>
- Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 11:55:59 GMT
- X-Disclaimer: This message was written by a user at CONVEX Computer
- Corp. The opinions expressed are those of the user and
- not necessarily those of CONVEX.
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- From the keyboard of messina@netcom.com (Tony Porczyk):
- :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.
- :
- :Have you ever though[t]
- :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?
-
- I'm a pluralistic kind of guy. I've tried everything, and from
- experience, come to learn that there are some things that don't
- work as well. That seems pretty easy to understand, doesn't it?
-
- I have a fair number of things in ~/bin that are "fixed-by-hacking"
- versions of std utils, and many more such things in ~/scripts that
- are "fixed-by-wrapping" versions of std utils.
-
- Hacking on source is almost always a solution that will come back
- to haunt you. Sometimes things are so broken you have to fix
- them, but if you just want to munge the output, heroic measures
- are overkill.
-
- Splitting something up ps to put the header to stderr and the rest of
- data to stdout is a myopic solution.
-
-
- --tom
-
- --
- Tom Christiansen tchrist@convex.com convex!tchrist
-
- "* Unix is a footnote of AT&T Bell Laboratories."
- --Barry Shein
-