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Subject: Dealing with four-year-olds... (Was: a sed question)
Date: Tue, 24 Dec 2024 12:58:42 -0000 (UTC)
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In article <vke8u3$1rdnq$1@dont-email.me>,
Ed Morton  <mortonspam@gmail.com> wrote:
>On 12/23/2024 4:57 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>> On Mon, 23 Dec 2024 07:26:15 -0600, Ed Morton wrote:
>> 
>>> Awk is a mandatory POSIX tool (and so available on all POSIX-compliant
>>> Unix-y systems) with a tiny but powerful language focused on just text
>>> processing, perl is none of that.
>> 
>> Perl is all of that, and more. Text processing is very much the raison
>> dtre for Perl. Because it turns out it can get quite complicated.
>
>Is perl a mandatory POSIX tool? No.
>Does perl have a tiny language? No.
>Is perl focused on just text processing? No.
>
>So, is perl a mandatory POSIX tool with a tiny language focused on just 
>text processing? No, as previously mentioned, perl is none of that.

Does it feel like you are explaining things to a four-year-old?

Because I think you are.  And doing a fine job of it.

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