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To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
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Date: Tue,  7 Apr 2009 23:50:42 +0100
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Subject: Re: [9fans] a bit OT, programming style question
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>>> Exactly, and the end user can choose to have a re or glob expansion
>>> program, rather than having to muck up the shell code with different
>>> flags or whatever.
>>
>> somebody is going to jump in very soon and tell us why this is
>> funny :-)
>
> i promised i wouldn't,


Well someone's gotta tell these prepubescents ...

"Because the V6 shell did it, that's why.".