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Subject: Re: [9fans] samuel
From: geoff@collyer.net
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> If you haven't used it, then I suggest you try it before making
> grandiose philosophical remarks about the purity of little tools
> combined with archaic regular expression munging.  You sound like
> dinosaurs.

``In computer science, we stand on each other's feet.'''  - Brian Reid

The modern field of computing (using stored-program electronic digital
computers) is just over 50 years old.  How anything in the field can
be considered archaic is beyond me.  If we're dinosaurs for using
something as relatively recent as regular expression searches, what
hope is there for building on the work of others?

If you just prefer GUIs to composition of commands, just say so.