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From: wls@astrovax.UUCP (William L. Sebok)
Newsgroups: net.unix
Subject: Re: Berkeley 'head' script
Message-ID: <477@astrovax.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 24-Oct-84 11:56:07 EDT
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Posted: Wed Oct 24 11:56:07 1984
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"head" is used enough here to justify making it a C program.  I really don't
see how one gains any clarity by replacing a perfectly good short C program
with a complicated shell script using sed. I think that the latter is much
harder to understand.
  And also slower if any Unix zealots out there still care about performance.
-- 
Bill Sebok			Princeton University, Astrophysics
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