Why shells should have small programming languages
In light of things such as Perl and Python, it is reasonable to askwhy the shell should have anysort of programming environment or language at all. Why not justrestrict shells to simple commands, pipelines, and redirections?
(I'm assuming here that you have a good Unix glue language around for everything that people currently writeshell scripts for.)
The obvious problem is the issue of where you draw the line. Is loopingover lists of files and doing something to each of them a common enoughoperation
Friday Night
Thank God，終於捱到星期五！雖然週末也有conference call，但Friday night畢竟還是令人心情愉快的。
Sam和Katie等大班同事一早在Halo 訂了檯，我改完手頭上的document便趕去與他們會合。Guess what？竟然給我在途中碰見一個「疑似banker」的物體大字形躺在路邊，
Urine
One startling story is about the neurosurgeon's thought whilst flushing the loo, when he remembered a magazine lying around in the operating suite coffee room. At least one molecule of his own urine will at some time fall on him one day as rain, according to an
願望與力量
今年異議聲音的一段自由jam歌。遲了開機，聽了半晌你會發現那是熟悉的歌，後來你會發現，那是我們共同的願望。純為紀錄，畫面搖晃（upload後黑得看不見自由戰士的翅膀），因為我不唱歌不與人同坐只在黑暗中流眼淚。北京來
一件小事
我們
有時候我會問自己：為什麼我要對自己太苛刻？別人又為什麼會喜歡苛刻地對待他人？我們是否要忠於自己而不理會別人？人們是否應努力去做一些討好多數人的事？
Some corollaries to the charging problem
Here's a couple of corollaries and effects of the charging problem that are worth mentioning (or at least that occurredto me).
The obvious corollary is how much more sensible the problem makesthe 'give away the service to build interest' approach often used byInternet startups. If people can't do anything with you before theyspend money, your window to get them interested enough to do so is verylimited (probably more or less one web page, at best). Giving them freeaccess gives
集結號
47名士兵，奮勇抗敵，敵人多次攻擊，仍被他們擊
過節：自由戰士．時代廣場．維園
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沒有叫人聲嘶力竭的口號﹔沒有大會的指定動作……
請來為十九年前無端斷送青春和性的人們，獻上我們最溫柔的悼念。
為紀念六四事件十九周年，我們謹呼籲各方友好，於六四當日前往位於尖沙咀文化中心外，