From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Dan Cross <cross@math.psu.edu>
Message-Id: <200104270316.XAA23966@augusta.math.psu.edu>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Awk or Limbo ?
In-Reply-To: <20010427023717.9765219A33@mail.cse.psu.edu>
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Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2001 23:16:05 -0400
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In article <20010427023717.9765219A33@mail.cse.psu.edu> you write:
>
>  [lots of good comments elided for brevity]
>
>Barry Shein commented that `X was written by seventeen-year-olds who
>can't program sitting down' (I hope I haven't misquoted him) and it
>shows.  There's a little known program in the Plan 9 distribution,
>Brenda Baker's dup(1), that one can run over the source of the latest
>whiz-bang program and get a sense for how much code was cut-and-pasted
>instead of converted into proper functions, presumably by the same
>sort of kids with bladders full of Jolt cola.  Incidentally, the
>distributed /rc/bin/dup didn't work when I last looked; here's a fixed
>one:
>
>#!/bin/rc
>path=(/$cputype/bin/aux $path)
>pdup $* | dupstat

Plan 9 has dup(1) in it?  Not on my system unfortunately; I've been
looking for a copy for years, too....

Cutting and pasting may be bad in X, but you should have seen my last
job.  Oi.

	- Dan C.