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From: dave@horsfall.org (Dave Horsfall)
Subject: [TUHS] Re {TUHS} Synchronous vs Asynchronous IO in Unix
Date: Sat, 26 Sep 2015 22:09:23 +1000 (EST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.11.1509262200330.46878@aneurin.horsfall.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150925232349.GA19979@mcvoy.com>

On Fri, 25 Sep 2015, Larry McVoy wrote:

> P.S.  We're not crazy, we implemented a C like language that compiles 
> down to tcl byte codes so we don't have to deal with tcl very much.  
> Here's what that looks like, this is a little script that I use like
> 
> tail -f access.log | awk { print $1, $7 } | bk tclsh dns.l
> 
> It's like C with some perl goodness thrown in:

Dang it; you're making me learn a new language!

I used to joke that I've used as many languages as I am old; I turn 63 
next month, so you've just added one...

-- 
Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU)  "Those who don't understand security will suffer."
              Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn!




  reply	other threads:[~2015-09-26 12:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-09-21 14:02 Doug McIlroy
2015-09-25 17:08 ` Dan Cross
2015-09-25 22:05 ` Dave Horsfall
2015-09-25 23:16   ` Clem Cole
2015-09-25 23:23     ` Larry McVoy
2015-09-26 12:09       ` Dave Horsfall [this message]
2015-09-26 16:39         ` John Cowan
2015-09-27  7:19       ` Ramakrishnan Muthukrishnan

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