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Subject: why learn UNIX
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Date: Wed, 4-Feb-87 18:33:01 EST
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Posted: Wed Feb  4 18:33:01 1987
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   > 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
   > >	quickly analyze an end-user's real needs and quickly prototype
   > >	a solution.  The fast analysis/prototype cycle results in systems...
   > 
   > WHAT IN 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)

Ever hear of `popen'? Or the more general case of setting up the plumbing,
then forking and execing a system program. Why write a real program
when you can call other ones almost as easy as subroutines?

	(Root Boy) Jim "Just Say Yes" Cottrell	<rbj@icst-cmr.arpa>