Oh puhleeeeeeze

Post #275,657 by crazy 12/13/06 10:14:17 AM Reply	Oh puhleeeeeeze You? Playing misunderstood? The master of so many languages? "Nah, I was fully expecting our gurus to enlighten me on sed" And they failed you. Awwww. "I must say, I was a bit surprised that they apparently couldn't do it -- at least not very easily. (And no, "they" here means the Unix utilities, not our Unix gurus. Had the former been able to do it, then the latter also would have been.)" Actually, I'm sure I (and any of the other Unix people) could figure it out using your limited tool choices. After seeing Scott do OO programming in a variety of languages, I'm sure he could torture sed to do the task. BUT WE AREN'T THAT STUPID. We reach into the tool belt and pull out the tool for the task. Some such as myself will reach for Perl, other such as Todd would reach for Squeak. It doesn't mean that we can't come up with the solution in other languages / utilities, just it is a stupid waste of time. It was a 3 line task in most decent scripting languages. And you did post in the scripting forum. And then you go on being surprised that using mediocre tools are avoided by people with experience in them. The tools you expected them to use. The tools you DON'T have experience in. WTF is wrong with this picture? You.
Post #275,660 by bepatient 12/13/06 10:20:48 AM Reply	You went off too fast. rationalize it all you like. Too much of today's music is fashionable crap dressed as artistry._{Adrian Belew}
Post #275,661 by crazy 12/13/06 10:24:04 AM Reply	Thhppptttt ;-}
Post #275,672 by CRConrad 12/13/06 10:49:30 AM Reply	Sheesh... Learn to fucking read, fuckwit. "I must say, I was a bit surprised that they apparently couldn't do it -- at least not very easily. (And no, "they" here means the Unix utilities, not our Unix gurus. Had the former been able to do it, then the latter also would have been.)" Actually, I'm sure I (and any of the other Unix people) could figure it out using your limited tool choices. After seeing Scott do OO programming in a variety of languages, I'm sure he could torture sed to do the task. "Actually", you illiterate fucking baboon, THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT I SAID. Re-read the whole paragraph, including the parenthesis, s-l-o-w-l-y. BUT WE AREN'T THAT STUPID. Well, no... MOST of you aren't -- but you, on the other hand -- you obviously are. Get back to me when you've mastered Remedial English For Eighth-Graders, but not before. [link\|mailto:MyUserId@MyISP.CountryCode\|Christian R. Conrad] (I live in Finland, and my e-mail in-box is at the Saunalahti company.) Ah, the Germans: Masters of Convoluted Simplification. — [link\|http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/?p=1603\|Jehovah]
Post #275,690 by crazy 12/13/06 1:20:32 PM Reply	I bow to the greater man At least the jowlier one. Your mastery of English far exceeds mine. Too bad you're still a text munging wannabe.
Post #275,699 by CRConrad 12/13/06 2:45:21 PM Reply	You got some of that exactly bass-ackwards() - hey, why... ...am I not surprised...? Oh, but here's a surprising bit -- you got some of it exactly right: Yes, my mastery of English does indeed far exceed yours. But thinking I'm a "text munging wannabe" is as backwards() as it gets: I'm normally a text-munging NOT-wannabe, but unfortunately in this case I was a text-munging GOTTAbe. (): And isn't that -- the original, un-funnified plain version "ass-backwards" -- a bloody stupid expression, BTW? Having one's ass backwards is the CORRECT position for that part of the body; when something is all the wrong way around, it must be ass-FORWARDS! [link\|mailto:MyUserId@MyISP.CountryCode\|Christian R. Conrad]* (I live in Finland, and my e-mail in-box is at the Saunalahti company.) Ah, the Germans: Masters of Convoluted Simplification. — [link\|http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/?p=1603\|Jehovah]

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