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- From: ckd@eff.org (Christopher Davis)
- Subject: Re: How to convice awk/sed users to use Perl ?
- In-Reply-To: folta@cs.umd.edu's message of 9 Sep 92 23:08:42 GMT
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- Wayne Folta made quite a few good points. One more to his list:
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- Compatibility, or the "what do you mean it's SysV tr and wants brackets?"
- Just ask the HP-UX folks who found C news breaking because HP broke awk...
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