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From: lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.programmer
Subject: Re: how to put a program into .plan file
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Date: 4 Oct 90 17:23:12 GMT
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Reply-To: lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall)
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In article <29485:Oct404:23:4390@kramden.acf.nyu.edu> brnstnd@kramden.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein) writes:
: In article <107255@uunet.UU.NET> rbj@uunet.UU.NET (Root Boy Jim Cottrell) writes:
: > I suppose we could all live without `.' in our path easily enuf.
: > Perhaps it is habit and optimism that keep it there.
: 
: Yep, I think so. I spent a couple of months training myself away from a
: path with . into a path without, and I've never regretted the change:
: it's perfectly natural to me now to execute programs with ./ if they're
: in the current directory. I still have a dotpath alias (and its inverse,
: nodotpath) to deal with those annoying shell scripts that depend on . in
: the path; I rarely use it.

I often execute programs with "./" too, but for an entirely different reason.
Seems my history character is a comma.  So I'm in the habit of rerunning
the program I'm testing by saying ",.", which is very fast to type.

I work very hard at being as lazy as possible.

However, I see no difficulty at all with leaving . on the end of my path.
I believe it will save me more grief than it will cause me over the long
run.

And I work very hard at being as lazy as possible.

Larry Wall
lwall@jpl-devvax.jpl.nasa.gov