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From: tom@uwai.UUCP
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Subject: Re: program to repetively display command on crt
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Date: Fri, 30-Nov-84 15:47:28 EST
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> 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
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> derek@wisc-rsch.arpa

Rah Derek!
-- 

Tom Christiansen
University of Wisconsin
Computer Science Systems Lab 
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