On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 11:11:44AM -0700, Walter Bright wrote: > Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: > >It took me a couple of minutes to write under her eyes a script that > >downloaded HTML, scraped the code for links, followed those of interest, > >and output a concatenation of all pages she was interested in, with > >details highlighted, that was loadable back in the browser. I'd show her > >one iteration, get feedback, and get the next iteration within seconds. > >All without "coding" in any sense as regularly understood by Windows > >programmers. > > I have no idea how to do that under unix. I obviously have not learned > anywhere near enough about it.
Load up vi, write the program, compile it with dmd, run it :P The command line is great for one line programs, but for anything complex, it gets to be really hard to follow. Writing D is no harder and much safer. -- Adam D. Ruppe http://arsdnet.net
