Re: awk and sorting file

Kenny McCormack schrieb:

The problem is a general fear of HLLs, especially C. Of the users I
provide support for, the older ones may feel comfortable with a text mode
interface, and a few of those can manage a batch file - curiously, the old
ones are also mostly comfortable with a command line FORTRAN compiler, but
don't mention C around them (done that, been reprimanded). The younger
ones mostly don't even know how to get a command line window, but many of
them are comfortable with things like drag and drop prototyping languages,
just don't mention C around them. A very few, mostly grad students, can
manage a text mode language like AWK, batch language, or WSH, and I
encounter one or two a year who use Visual C, mostly because some
simulation package they use requires it. But compile a language? The
concept is far beyond all but the rarest Windows user - other people get
paid to do that.

Yes. There are a lot of stupid people in the world.

This is news?

No, that's not news. But it was still interesting to hear
about the division between older and younger users. It
was also interesting to hear that FORTRAN isnt dead yet.
BTW: FORTRAN is 50, aint it ?
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