Peter Hansen wrote:
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But the whole argument is fairly moot... I've needed a rectangle operation only once in the last ten years, and if I hadn't known at the time that my editor could do it (and spent about half an hour figuring out how it worked), I could have written a utility to do the job faster if I'd been using Python at the time...
Or even used cut(1) from the command line.
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