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[alexander]

I take it you're not working on VTXYZ terminals but console emulator windows. If so, you are nevertheless exploiting a GUI feature!

i do run a gui, Fluxbox, why, because this is a laptop, and performance is not that big of issue and its not a server, a small gui, with semitransparent everything does a good job at impressing friends one of which already switched to linux, so its for the good. But many times if i'm coding on my friends box over ssh, screen does a splendid job at creating as many virtual terminals as i need, so, no, not necessarily exploiting gui features... (I'm actually working on a good configuration of fvwm, there are a few problems still, but eventually i want to be able to press a key combo, and see all my windows move and hide at the nearest edge, oh and i love transparency )

Have you ever heard the rumour about the back door in some versions of IIS?

Which one lol, there were quite a few

I said Posix meaning the whole Posix compatible category. I have tried bash and I like it better than the other shells, though it is limited to its purpose and it certainly isn't C! Bash would be better, even just if you could define a function to return more than a byte, and use the return value in a more direct and comfy way. When I read that functions can be called recursively I thought, OK, let's try it, classic exercise: factorial(n). What a nightmare! It takes getting used to but, even when I got it straight, the limitations are obvious. I guess I'm just a C/C++ guy and I'm discontent enough with Coffee too. I've heard Perl is great, I'd probably like it if I took the time.

there is are packages that allows you to script C in which case you win no matter what
Perl is great for text edditing anything, although as programmer i think that Python is a better language as a whole, I'm waiting for the new perl to come out, then i'll learn it, it will be object oriented and have a whole bunch of cool new features worth my time. but perl does have the best libraries for dealing with strings in general, their regexp library so good that it is used in PHPs engine, they decided not to screw with the best regular expression engine ther is
I dont know whether you'd like perl, the syntax can be very discombobulating like the attatchments:
code1 - insane perl program, just open it up, if you see a picture of a guy, you're golden
code2 - gives a new meaning to hello world (should see globe)
code3 - a little some something for science (sould see e)
code4 - a little something for hypo (H)
(no none of this code is mine, it is however from my collection of code so i dont know the authors, but most of it is from perlmonks.org... (actually think that all of it appeared on perlmonks))