You can't do that

[Brian K. White]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kenneth Brody" <kenbrody at bestweb.net>
To: "Jeff Harrison" <jeffaharrison at yahoo.com>
Cc: <filepro-list at seaslug.org>
Sent: Sunday, September 04, 2005 7:39 AM
Subject: Re: You can't do that


> 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?

Well, I do say that :) But only jokingly.
Not only don't I hardly ever use perl, a lot of simple things where you 
usually see sed or awk used, only really requires cut and I use that.

But I don't call everyone else stupid and claim that perl is pointless and a 
waste of resources just because I haven't run into anything I couldn't do 
fairly simply in shell & awk. I can imagine the possibility that other 
people have good ideas and utility scripting language development didn't 
halt on that important date in history day when I learned how to use awk.

Brian K. White  --  brian at aljex.com  --  http://www.aljex.com/bkw/
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