Hi all! We discussed the C-shell in these mailing lists before. A few days ago I decided to set up the definitive anti-C-shell page, based on an email I wrote,...
... Good summary of CSH's problems and good links. Another reason you missed is this: if you have to learn just *one* shell, make sure you learn bourne shell,...
... It was 12 years ago when I learned csh, but from what I remember the "killer feature" was the c-like properties of csh, the ability to program in a way ...
... <rant> I tell you, if I had a web site with a folder named "anti", I would write a piece about these auto-responders there. People, there is an RFC, and...
... My two favorite out-of-office messages are this: "You are receiving this automatic notification because I am out of the office. If I was in, chances are...
Hello, I have someone in my company who needs a basic primer of things like "What is an OS?" and "What are the differences between Linux and Windows?" and...
Arik's rant deserves a Nobel prize. Arik described the problem, where to find the solution, and even (briefly) the solution itself. I am honored to save the...
Omer Zak
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Oct 7, 2007 6:23 pm
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... Well, I suppose I can write this thing myself - it shouldn't take too long. But I need to know what exactly you want me to cover. In bullet point. ...
... Whenever I have such questions (not these specific questions, of course ;-)) there is one place I refer to - Wikipedia. You might want to look at the ...
Hi! Sorry for the late response. ... I think reason #1 (repharsed a bit) - to get knowlege is the most important one, followed by #2. Usually, #2 is seen as...
... Good page. Definitely s/tcsh/bash/g is even more obvious than s/cvs/svn/g ;-) But for those of us that find even {ba,z,k}sh unsatisfactory, I highly ...
... My problem with FISH is that its syntax is incompatible with that of the Bourne Shell, much less with bash. As such, I recommend people not to get use it,...
... I don't have a problem with all fish, but some FISH are too FISHy and smell bad especially if they stand for Friendly Interactive SHell or FISH for short. ...
Hi! Can the admins of this mailing list please unsubscribe the alex@... address, as it sends this message to the poster for every post to the list? ...
... It won't become the next csh because it's not vastly inferior ;-). It just as real a language as bash, only different. Whether to use it or not is a...
... It still may introduce bad habits when using Bash for scripts. ... Right. ... Can you give some examples for that? And if so - how is FISH better? ... ...
Hi all! Today's "Ozy and Millie" strip seems to carry an important message about security: http://www.ozyandmillie.org/d/20071119.html Regards, Shlomi Fish ......
Does anyone know what is happening to the Wikipedia static images (in http://static.wikipedia.org/downloads/)? It seems that there are no static images for...
Omer Zak
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Nov 29, 2007 2:31 pm
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As a token of my gratefulness for the enclosed misconfigured auto-reply E-mail message, I am enclosing here the new E-mail address of Alex as reported by his...
Omer Zak
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Nov 29, 2007 5:23 pm
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Just a reminder that the Early bird registration dead-line of the Perl Workshop ( http://act.perl.org.il/ ) is tomorrow. List of presentations can be found...
I'm facing a situation that probably occurs to writers of most applications with log file capabilities. I wish to have a function log() which only redirects...
Hello list, I have an array that for the example will look as follows: linux, windows, mac os, beos, os/2, freebsd, netbsd, irix .... And a string: "linux...
Since you want to use PHP, I assume that you want to do this when processing Web requests. Therefore, I would store the array as a DB (such as MySQL) table. ...
Omer Zak
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Dec 19, 2007 4:13 am
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If you don't need persistence for the array, don't use a DB such as MySQL. DBs write everything to the disk. They are highly optimized to never ever lose data,...
First of all thank you for the answers. I found a solution thanks to Oded Arbel, without using database, and it is O(2*N) (if I remember the subject of...
... O(2*N) complexity is equivalent to O(N). Maybe you've meant O(N^2)? Your code's complexity seems to be O(N^2) or even O(N*M) where N and M are different...
... You CAN do anything in sh, but it's defaults are bad, which makes you use convoluted syntax or give up and write code with bugs. Consider this fish code: ...
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