why Unix?

[Adam D. Ruppe]

On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 11:11:44AM -0700, Walter Bright wrote:
> Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> >It took me a couple of minutes to write under her eyes a script that 
> >downloaded HTML, scraped the code for links, followed those of interest, 
> >and output a concatenation of all pages she was interested in, with 
> >details highlighted, that was loadable back in the browser. I'd show her 
> >one iteration, get feedback, and get the next iteration within seconds. 
> >All without "coding" in any sense as regularly understood by Windows 
> >programmers.
> 
> I have no idea how to do that under unix. I obviously have not learned 
> anywhere near enough about it.

Load up vi, write the program, compile it with dmd, run it :P

The command line is great for one line programs, but for anything complex,
it gets to be really hard to follow. Writing D is no harder and much safer.

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Adam D. Ruppe
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