Homework problems (was: extract string)

[Bill McGonigle]

On Jan 10, 2006, at 20:16, Christopher Schmidt wrote:

> The lack of knowledge of a simple command line tool to do what you want
> it to does not indicate whether someone is a programmer or not. It
> simply indicates one thing -- their level of experience with core *nix
> tools. Lack of that is not an indication of deficiencies in their
> ability to program.

Right - Zhao is pretty new to unix and linux.  For those following 
along, notice he didn't say, 'is there any way to do this' but 'what's 
the most efficient way to do this'?  (paraphrasing).

What matters is not whether one has achieved enlightenment but rather 
that one is on the path to enlightenment.

-Bill
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