UNIX Arcana [was Re: Perl (or Unix vs. MS, actually) ]

[Mark Komarinski]

Good thing more colors other than green and amber were invented too.

-Mark

On Wed, Aug 21, 2002 at 11:00:10AM -0400, Andrew W. Gaunt wrote:
> 
> Back in the early days of computers there weren't
> as many characters to go around and folks had to 
> be very conservative with their use. Since then, more
> have been pulled out of the ground so we can use
> them more liberally.
> 
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