You can't do that

[Bob Stockler]

Ken Brody wrote (on Sun, Sep 04, 2005 at 07:39:38AM -0400):

| Quoting Jeff Harrison (Fri, 2 Sep 2005 07:42:58 -0700 (PDT)):
| [...]
| > Of course you said nothing about removing edits.
| > Brian was just trying to give you an example of a
| > place where filepro currently has rules for data
| > integrity.  It does not take anything away from
| > filepro that these rules are available.
| >
| > Because it is possible to manipulate the data in
| > processing the same way as in edits, It could be
| > argued that edits add nothing to filepro so why are
| > they there?
| >
| > In my opinion this is not a stupid statement nor is it
| > putting words in your mouth.
| 
| For the same reason that one could argue that there's nothing you can
| do in Perl that you can't already do in shell scripts and awk/sed/etc.
| so why use Perl?

With no apparent relevance, let me add:

David Korn maintains that his KSH-93 allows scripting at shell
level many programs that otherwise would have to have been
written in Perl or some other language, with no loss in their
efficiency or performance (and perhaps a gain in one or both).

Bob

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