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From: jharkins@sagpd1.UUCP (Jim Harkins)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: The *ART* of Computer Programming
Message-ID: <655@sagpd1.UUCP>
Date: 7 Mar 90 01:32:13 GMT
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In article <EMV.90Mar2161110@duby.math.lsa.umich.edu> emv@math.lsa.umich.edu (Edward Vielmetti) writes:
>
>My "one time" programs tend to be 80 characters or less and are
>generally written as shell pipelines or perl one-liners.  
>
>--Ed

These are the worst, I find that 6 months later I spend more time trying to
figure out how to use that 1-liner I left laying around than it would take
me to write another to do the same thing.  The original assertion stands.


-- 
jim		jharkins@sagpd1

"My hope is that we can use tariffs to force Japan to open their markets to
 imported goods.  My fear is I'll be forced to buy lousy American made stuff."