braindead languages?

[A. Sinan Unur]

perldoc perltoot | grep 'braindead' -A 1 -B 1

ITYM

perldoc perltoot | grep -A1 -B1 braindead

Usage: grep [OPTION]... PATTERN [FILE]...

Sinan.

 

[Sherm Pendley]

ITYM

I think she means to sabotage the group by increasing the noise level.
Her flamebait was posted to C++ and Java groups as well - with followups
directed here, so that c.l.p.m gets all of the outraged responses from
the denizens of those groups.

sherm--

 

[Sherm Pendley]

Please don't feed the troll by replying to this. Note where followups
are directed - she obviously intends to sabotage the Perl group by
flooding it with outraged flames from the denizens of the C++ and Java
groups.

sherm--

 

[Laura]

perldoc perltoot | grep 'braindead' -A 1 -B 1

 

[Laura]

perldoc perltoot | grep 'braindead' -A 1 -B 1

ITYM

perldoc perltoot | grep -A1 -B1 braindead

Usage: grep [OPTION]... PATTERN [FILE]...

Sinan.

TMTOWTDI

 

[A. Sinan Unur]

I think she means to sabotage the group by increasing the noise level.
Her flamebait was posted to C++ and Java groups as well - with followups
directed here, so that c.l.p.m gets all of the outraged responses from
the denizens of those groups.

Ah, I am really sorry ... I did not pay attention. Should have known
better. Thanks for pointing it out.

 

[Matt Garrish]

perldoc perltoot | grep 'braindead' -A 1 -B 1

A rather pointless post if ever there was one, especially since you seem to
hope it will be taken out of context:

<quote>
There, if that doesn't excite the Scheme folks, then I just don't know what
will. Translation of this technique into C++, Java, or any other
braindead-static language is left as a futile exercise for aficionados of
those camps.

....

If you were wondering when Hubris, the third principle virtue of a
programmer, would come into play, here you have it. (More seriously, Hubris
is just the pride in craftsmanship that comes from having written a sound
bit of well-designed code.)
</quote>

In other words, for the less cranially developed such as yourself, that
paragraph was meant to be taken tongue-in-cheek.

Matt

 

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson]

Please don't feed the troll by replying to this.

Agreed.

And since we don't want to see 'debates' bases on such braindead
wordings, maybe somebody should better reconsider the including of such
troll invitations in the docs?

Just a thought.

 

[Michele Dondi]

ITYM

perldoc perltoot | grep -A1 -B1 braindead

Usage: grep [OPTION]... PATTERN [FILE]...

Sorry to disagree with you and implicitly agree with the troll, but
she's right: it will work the other way too, even though the usage
line suggests differently. I don't know with more ancient
implementations, but nowadays grep is often GNU grep, and the cmd line
is processed with GNU getopts library a feature of which being that
switches can appear almost anywhere and in any order. Some times it is
necessary to protect the pattern with -e, and I often use it anyway
for clarity, even if redundant. Note: what I wrote may be sloppy
technically in some places, but should be fundamentally correct.


Michele

 

[A. Sinan Unur]

ITYM

perldoc perltoot | grep -A1 -B1 braindead

Usage: grep [OPTION]... PATTERN [FILE]...

Sorry to disagree with you and implicitly agree with the troll, but
she's right: it will work the other way too, even though the usage
line suggests differently. I don't know with more ancient
implementations, but nowadays grep is often GNU grep,

Thanks for the correction

For what it is worth, I had actually tried the OP's version using cygwin
grep, and gotten

asu1@AardvarkIV ~
$ perldoc perltoot | grep 'braindead' -A 1 -B 1
grep: -A: No such file or directory
grep: 1: No such file or directory
grep: -B: No such file or directory
grep: 1: No such file or directory

Upon reading your post, I also tried on a Linux machine, and it worked.
Good to know.