From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <329B4CD3.4318298D@mail.gmail.com> From: Russ Cox To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] german keymap Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <0caab737d10a64d1875c24ac3b56c7be@collyer.net> Date: Sun, 11 Apr 2004 20:01:49 -0400 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 5922e62c-eacd-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 > s/ the fact// > Unexpected by whom? (I'm not a fan of Eric Raymond.) I think it's safe to say that using a character code display program as a makeshift radix-converter is unexpected. If you did the same trick with unicode(1), I wouldn't expect that! On the other hand, awk is a programming language, bc a calculator, and adb a debugger, all of which I'd expect to be able to do radix conversions in. I just find it amusing that this completely bizarre use is proof that the program is a good idea. If it does many things poorly, it must be a better tool than those pesky programs that do only one thing well. Russ