31 Jan
2016
31 Jan
'16
2:20 a.m.
OK, for those who haven't heard it before...
There was a meeting at Bell Labs. One women came in late, all out of
breath. She apologized: "I'm so sorry I'm late, but I was grepping my
apartment for my keys."
One of the senior UNIX guys in the meeting responded dryly: "You should
have used egrep, it's faster."
On 01/30/2016 11:44 AM, Dave Horsfall wrote:
On Sat, 30 Jan 2016, Mary Ann Horton wrote:
I'm wondering if anyone can confirm the
(possibly apocryphal) grep story
about the meeting at Bell Labs and the person who was late because she
couldn't find her keys? Maybe put some names to the characters?
(I can tell the story as I heard it, but I suspect we've all heard it
before.)
Please do; I haven't heard it, so others may not have...