It just sorta popped up from hearing about people using antique dos software dating back to the mid-80s to putz with text files within the context of a modern office and entertainment o/s. I think it should be named after Al Aho, Peter Weinberger and Brian Kernighan (apb, awb, kwa, ... or some such).
That sounds awkward but it would be a pearl of a language.
;-) ...Jim Thompson
sounds vaguely like perl.
So you copied the first paragraph from the wikipedia entry :)
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have no idea where i got it from. it has been sat on
I've seen one written in python. Very impressively fast, even on large files, and even on a real-time data output stream!
Or possibly SNOBOL. ;)
Cheers
Phil Hobbs
someone, give this man a gold star!
idea where i got it from. it has been sat on
i read the other day george r r martin writes all his books using it.
i had a problem with columns the other week when i was helping my stepdaughter with her cv. i made her do the whole thing over instead of using a template as she had done.
tab one, pearl one. i wonder how long it'd take to knit a digital jumper?
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ghter with her cv. i made her do the whole thing
is that like taking away her calculator and making her do the math longhand?
Phil Hobbs? I know a Phil Hobbs - IBM, right?
Laser noise canceller...
-- Grizzly H.
Nice try with the cross-post.
Cheers
Phil Hobbs
Microprocessor
have no idea where i got it from. it has been sat on
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I did most of that (no indexed arrays) in a macro in MultiEdit for Dos 20 years ago. Programmers editors are usually really powerful, see emacs.
?-)
uses a
What ever happened to ICEBOL?
?-)
Or SAGYTITS?
no idea where i got it from. it has been sat on
stepdaughter with her cv. i made her do the whole thing
she was ok until she got to the 5th column, then some kind of political spirit hit her.
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