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Back in the mid '90s, I'd put it at 1995, there was a Hypercard bit of Unix-related poetry that I've never been able to find again. I believe it was an "ABC of
by linsomniac 7y ago
Back in the mid '90s, I'd put it at 1995, there was a Hypercard bit of Unix-related poetry that I've never been able to find again. I believe it was an "ABC of Unix" sort of thing, with a poem or story for each letter. I recall the one about grep involving a woman whispering into her lovers ear how grep outputs matching lines unless -v is provided.
It was lovely, or at least my memory of it was that it was lovely. I've looked for it again over the decades, but I wonder if it was lost to HyperCard rot...
- jonjacky 7y agohttp://www.redballoon.net/humor/unix1.txt http://www.redballoon.net/humor/unix1.txt A is for Awk, which runs like a snail, and B is for Biff, which reads all your mail. ... but the grep entry here is different from what you remember.
- linsomniac 7y agoThat one I'm very familiar with. :-) This was something entirely different...