[Wolves] Character stripper

[bambam at opendildonics.org]

> sparkes said:
>
> > BamBams quite right, just upfront, my first thoughts where sed and awk
> > but I don't know them myself.  Writing perl to do what you want would be
> > quick as it is pretty much what perl 1 was written to do.
>
> Surely that's not the point tho'. I get the fact that Perl is great at
> string handling and has reg ex functionality coming out its ears but what
> I want to do is something that lots of people need to do and, so, what's
> the point in us all writing our own Perl script to do it? If that was the
> general attitude, computing would never have got beyond a tiny academic
> ghetto.

Here's a crazy idea I've had. How about, everyone who wants
to do web design should learn enough about text replacement
to be able to do their job!!! (sparkes is a web designer -
did I mention that?). If you're wondering, I think you could
learn it in about 10 mins.

See, if you educate yourself, maybe you'll get out of the
huge urban ghetto. It's the general attitude. You seem to
think: I know it can be done in one line using lots of tools
that were invented to do this, but, well.. I can't be arsed.

Wake up.

>
> > Vi on the hand is a genius solution.  All you need to know is the
> > correct command to enter I can't be arsed to try and work it out ;-)
>
> There, you've said it. I need to know the correct command. This isn't me
> being lazy, it's just a matter of efficiency. It's like me using a Swiss
> army knife when I know that all I'll ever want to do is to uncork wine
> bottles. There are jobs and there are a number of tools that will do those
> jobs. Perl is one tool but it requires a bit more effort from me.
> Demoronizer - it appears - is another tool, that does exactly what I need,
> with virtually no effort on my part. Now, unless I'm missing the point,
> surely I'm better off using Demoronizer.

No, it really is you being lazy. If you were efficient,
you'd have looked up how to do it in an online manual
instead of trying to annoy me/us with it.

If you really want a wine opener, then make one you fool -
and put it on your website. Stop trying to consume all the
time and make something for a change.

You probably are in need of a demoronizer, but i'm not sure
it does what it should....

> > C++ would be a marginally better solution than C and lots better than
> > pure ones and zeros but I wouldn't ... oh wait that was a joke ;-)
>
> :)

Don't be stupid sparkes - C++ better than C for doing text
replacem....

oh, wait, it was a joke :-)

bambam
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