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From: ken@rochester.ARPA (Ken Yap)
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Subject: What is a wizard? (was: what to call a female wizard)
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Date: Tue, 28-Apr-87 19:24:59 EDT
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Posted: Tue Apr 28 19:24:59 1987
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I think the chart would be more realistic if we compared the classes
doing the same task.

\begin{:-)}

PROBLEM: change 100 .pas files in a directory to .p

Beginner: Gets his friend to do it for him.

Novice: Types in all 100 mv commands at the terminal.

User: Does a ls into a file and edits it to give 100 mv foo.pas foo.p
lines, then runs the script.

Hacker: Writes a 50 line C program to do it and posts it to the net.

Guru: Does it with a one line pipeline or an interactive for loop.

Wizard: Uses an undocumented option in mv that she put in 6 years ago.

\end{:-)}

	Ken