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- From: jerry@incc.com (Jerry Rocteur)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
- Subject: Re: Octal chmod status
- Summary: skills
- Message-ID: <105.28719@incc.com>
- Date: 19 Aug 92 20:56:14 GMT
- References: <Bt0EEL.H1q@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us> <1r!n6yd.messina@netcom.com>
- Organization: InCC.com Perwez Belgium
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- In article <1r!n6yd.messina@netcom.com>, messina@netcom.com (Tony Porczyk) writes:
- > Tom Christiansen <tchrist@convex.COM> responds to Marc Unangst:
- >
- > >Big deal. That infinitesimal time difference is surely not
- > >worth all the hassle of writing a C program for each and every little
- >
- > Even though I agree that the perl solution was fine (by being so
- > small), but I do not understand the bruhaha about the "hassle" of
- > writing a C program for small tasks. It is often much simpler and
- > *faster* to write the C code than to implement other solutions. At
- > least it is much more *readable* than the aformentioned perl script...
- >
- > t.
- Does this not depend on your skills ?????
-
- If Mr Christiansen is not familiar with C then maybe his choice is
- something else !!!
-
- You use your skills as best as you can, as long as you know yours and
- your tools limitations, but C does not have many :-)
-
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