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- From: ckd@eff.org (Christopher Davis)
- Subject: Re: Shell Scripts vs. C programs
- In-Reply-To: bryan@uhura1.uucp's message of Wed, 2 Sep 1992 21:28:04 GMT
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- BC> == Bryan Curnutt <bryan@uhura1.uucp>
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- BC> One rationale I haven't seen mentioned yet in this thread: With a
- BC> shell script, the source code and the executable program are in the
- BC> same place.
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- There are even perl scripts that are their own manual page nroff
- sources, as well as the source and executable. Now *that* is
- integration...
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