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Yes, it sounds like he was surprised. That's why he wrote "as expected...".

It all starts as a stream. That is the "universal format". sed was designed to edit streams. A stream can be transformed via stream editing into any text format, for any downstream…

I only need three programs to deal with anti-ASCII, pro-complexity JSON, XML, etc. crowd: tr, sed and lex. All the effort these Javascripters expend putting data JSON just gets und…

The question for those looking at the TOS is: What is it you do not want Google to do? Unless you know the answer to that, reading TOS is a mindless exercise. You need to supply so…

Doubtful. Yahoo rewrote Viaweb in C or C++, didn't they? There's a reason why so many programmers still use CGI scripts. And why they depend on a host of scripting languages that r…

Paul Graham: "$50m companies innovate. Mine did. We basically invented the web app. We were doing complex stuff in LISP when everyone else was doing CGI scripts. And, quite frankly…