[LOCATE ISSUE SOLVED:] Re: dumb question

[Paul Allen Newell]

On 1/5/2012 4:44 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
>
> You might be surprised. For some of us, the first question is "how can I
> do this with the Shell?" Only if the answer is "you can't", or "it would
> be too slow", do we resort to programming. The whole Unix toolkit
> philosophy is based on this, or at least used to be. That's why it was
> so successful in the beginning.
>
> poc
>

I've heard this many times and believe it to be a good adage. I might 
have taken a similar approach in hindsight if my first encounter had 
been a world where there was a mature Shell to work with.

Thanks,
Paul