Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site uwai.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!godot!harvard!seismo!uwvax!uwai!tom From: tom@uwai.UUCP Newsgroups: net.sources.bugs Subject: Re: program to repetively display command on crt Message-ID: <168@uwai.UUCP> Date: Fri, 30-Nov-84 15:47:28 EST Article-I.D.: uwai.168 Posted: Fri Nov 30 15:47:28 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 2-Dec-84 04:11:28 EST References: <336@ubu.UUCP>, <255@rlgvax.UUCP> <4698@utzoo.UUCP> <70@uwvax.UUCP> Organization: U of Wisconsin CS Dept Lines: 25 > Personally, I like C so well that I would rather use C than a shell script. > Especially for large programs, and for several reasons. First is the speed. > Also, the form of a C program is more easily extendable. It would be a real > drag if I wanted to extend either my or somebody else's program only to find > that it is a shell script and what I wish to add is something that you cannot > do with a shell script. > > But somehow I still consider myself to be civilized, and will never object to > "silly" shell scripts that do things cultured people would do with C :-) > > "Life's a bummer, and then you die." > > -- > Derek Zahn @ wisconsin > ...!{allegra,heurikon,ihnp4,seismo,sfwin,ucbvax,uwm-evax}!uwvax!derek > derek@wisc-rsch.arpa Rah Derek! -- Tom Christiansen University of Wisconsin Computer Science Systems Lab ...!{allegra,heurikon,ihnp4,seismo,uwm-evax}!uwvax!tom tom@wisc-ai.arpa