12 May
2023
12 May
'23
8:34 a.m.
On Thu, May 11, 2023 at 07:19:50PM -0700, Adam Thornton wrote:
Adding my voice to Unix Ken is just another Ken. Nothing I've seen from
him says he is trying to be Ken T.
And since I'm opining, I both liked and didn't like his scripts. I liked
that they were very classic Unix, a pleasant reminder of where we have
come from. What I didn't like was all that data flowing through all
those pipes. Yes, it is simple but it just doesn't scale that well
when you are processing gigabytes of data, which you frequently are
these days.
I'll date myself, but I could replace every one of those scripts
with a single pretty understandable perl script. Modern people might
prefer Python, I can program in Python but I have a huge aversion to a
programming language that doesn't include printf in the base language.
Too weird for me.
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Larry McVoy Retired to fishing http://www.mcvoy.com/lm/boat
On May 11, 2023, at 7:13 PM, Greg
'groggy' Lehey <grog(a)lemis.com> wrote:
Agreed. My guess is that the poster is really called Ken. You can't
blame him for that.
You can fault his judgment for calling himself "Unix Ken" or whatever, because
for most people around here, that would indicate a specific person who isn't him, but
nothing he's posted seems to indicate malice or an intention to confuse people.
I bet there are more than two people named Ken who are into Unix in the world.
Adam