Dirk Laurie wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 07:05:54AM +0200, Don Simons wrote:
> >
> > 3. (and here's where it gets really ugly) use a special FORTRAN
> > program I wrote to go through the prepmx output file, looking for and
> > deleting every occurrence of
> >
> > rp |
> > rp |
> >
> PMX and M-Tx both carry heavily the baggage of what programming languages
> their developers knew back when.
> 
> In the meantime, some very interesting programming languages have become
> available.

And even at the time Don wrote his original FORTRAN program:

        sed -i -e "/^rp |$/{N;/^rp |\nrp |$/d}" prepmx

was still a vastly faster way of doing that text transformation than using
any text editor or custom written program!!


David 

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