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deprecated_nds (oldnds)'s status on Wednesday, 17-Jun-2015 19:21:10 CEST deprecated_nds Just used awk in a script for the first time. - clacke repeated this.
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lnxw48 (Linux Walt) (lnxw48)'s status on Wednesday, 17-Jun-2015 19:26:16 CEST lnxw48 (Linux Walt) @nds #Awk is cool. Once you master awk and #sed, you can reinvent #perl. clacke repeated this. -
Dave Morriss (perloid)'s status on Wednesday, 17-Jun-2015 19:41:07 CEST Dave Morriss @lnxw48 @nds I tried to do this years ago, used awk and sed on VMS. They did not equal Perl since they seemed incomplete. Started using Perl clacke repeated this. -
deprecated_nds (oldnds)'s status on Wednesday, 17-Jun-2015 20:06:21 CEST deprecated_nds fwiw, if it comes to it, I'd use python instead of perl anyway #holywar clacke repeated this. -
Dave Morriss (perloid)'s status on Wednesday, 17-Jun-2015 20:27:40 CEST Dave Morriss @nds My son just took a year out from a music degree to learn programming. No way would I recommend Perl to him: C, Javascript, Python, etc clacke repeated this. -
X11R5 (x11r5)'s status on Thursday, 18-Jun-2015 14:16:47 CEST X11R5 ♻ @clacke I tried the same shambolic shuffle i use it as well. So nice to not have been chaos -
lnxw48 (Linux Walt) (lnxw48)'s status on Thursday, 18-Jun-2015 22:47:53 CEST lnxw48 (Linux Walt) @bobjonkman I was in elementary school during some of the times they've mentioned. -
lnxw48 (Linux Walt) (lnxw48)'s status on Friday, 19-Jun-2015 01:12:35 CEST lnxw48 (Linux Walt) @benfell @perloid During my move earlier this year, I found an old cassette tape of TRS-80 BASIC programs. I briefly considered keeping it to try to recover them, then thought of the embarrassment that would cause. -
lnxw48 (Linux Walt) (lnxw48)'s status on Friday, 19-Jun-2015 01:13:53 CEST lnxw48 (Linux Walt) I think my high school was one of the first in Los Angeles County to offer computer programming. !SoCal -
lnxw48 (Linux Walt) (lnxw48)'s status on Friday, 19-Jun-2015 09:57:15 CEST lnxw48 (Linux Walt) @benfell Not sure what model it was, but I remember drooling over some Heathkit computing kit even before my high school exposed me to the TRS-80. -
tuttle (tuttle)'s status on Friday, 19-Jun-2015 10:17:02 CEST tuttle ah, a TRS-80, instead of a nerd, I became a geek at 14. -
Jon Kulp (jonkulp)'s status on Friday, 19-Jun-2015 12:46:02 CEST Jon Kulp @johnnynull @perloid a forthcoming #hpr episode of mine is "what's in my bicycle repair toolbox." -
lnxw48 (Linux Walt) (lnxw48)'s status on Saturday, 20-Jun-2015 05:22:42 CEST lnxw48 (Linux Walt) Not that it was ever possible for my family to afford such a thing. But I sure drooled over the Heathkit catalogs.