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Date: 5 Jun 1997 07:21:01 -0700
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Paul Derbyshire wrote:

> Isn't that csh you're describing?

no.


> 
> (Say is that what that thing is in Independence Day where the computer guy
> is sending a virus and then a laughing skull and crossbones message... it
> looks like C with curly braces but stuff executes instantly instead of
> compiling... is that csh or something hypothetical thought up in Hollywood?)

it was just a movie paul, relax, you're not missing anything. if your
really interested, and not just wanking around, awk is well documented,
and pretty straightforward, with a condition/action structure kind of
like flex, but with the stuff they should have put in flex thrown in
too.

i don't think you'd want flex to be like perl, though.

on second thought, if it had lots of curly braces, maybe it was awk...

phil