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From: cetron@utah-cs.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: why learn UNIX
Message-ID: <4221@utah-cs.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 28-Jan-87 11:42:47 EST
Article-I.D.: utah-cs.4221
Posted: Wed Jan 28 11:42:47 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 29-Jan-87 06:18:12 EST
References: <2083@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> <1238@frog.UUCP>
Reply-To: cetron@utah-cs.UUCP (Edward J Cetron)
Organization: Center for Engineering Design, Univ of Utah
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In article <1238@frog.UUCP> john@frog.UUCP (John Woods, Software) writes:
->> In a recent article rbl@nitrex.UUCP ( Dr. Robin Lake ) wrote:
->> >	UNIX, with it's pipe feature and the excellent Software Tools
->> >	books to back it up, serves well in teaching students how to
->> 
->> WHAT IN THE HOLY GOOD GOD EARTH DO PIPES HAVE TO DO WITH RAPID PROTOTYPING??
->> 
->> This article sounds like a snow job...   growl.
->> 
->> garry wiegand   (garry%cadif-oak@cu-arpa.cs.cornell.edu)
->
->A quick spelling checker:
->
->tr '\t ' '\n' | sort | uniq | comm -23 - /usr/lib/dict/wordlist
->
->Took me 3 minutes to write, including fishing around for the manual.
->
		.....

->Note that I used 3 pipes and 4 "Software Tools" that perform limited,
->precisely describable jobs.
->

hmm, this fascinated me... so I decided to try it, and it worked, and I did
it as written on my VMS machine....  Now, explain to me why if I can do this
on my UNIX machine  AND I can do it on my VMS  machine, why UNIX is better 
than VMS.

-ed cetron
 
in fact, I then went and tried it on my RSX-11M+ machine, hmmm, worked there
two.....this is getting strange :-)