Re: OT: Why is C so popular?
Quoting Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>:
> On Wed, 2003-08-27 at 06:34, Paul Johnson wrote:
> > On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 03:59:27AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> > > 3 - "I learned C in college, and C lets me write in 1 long line
> > > that which takes 3 easy-to-read lines in Fortran. Thus, C is great,
> > > and all other languages suck!". Fortunately, this attitude is also
> > > diminishing. Unfortunately, nowadays "s/C /Perl /".
> >
> > Wouldn't it be easier to read if you wrote it s/C/Perl/ ?
>
> So that it wouldn't change Choo-choo to Perlhoo-choo. I wasn't
> just thinking of that one paragraph...
>
Then: s/\bC\b/Perl/g ;-)
(Yes, I also added a g at the end to not only substitute the 1st occurence)
Francois.
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Francois BOTTIN
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"How kind," the PFY sighs. "But where will I go?"
"Somewhere where they know nothing about computing...
where they wouldn't know a RAM chip from a potato chip!"
"But I don't want to visit Microsoft!" he whines.
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