From: Nightblade Date: 2001-12-27T15:54:08+09:00 Subject: [ruby-talk:29464] Re: Convincing people that Ruby is more productive than C++ or Java in many cases "Markus Jais" wrote in message news:a0cgcj$jt2rr$1@ID-75083.news.dfncis.de... [snip] > for the last two points I once showed a friend this example: > it opens every *.txt file in the current directory which name starts > with "a" and prints every line of this file which contains the string "se" [snip] Following that argument, grep/sh programming "0wnz j00 a11" as they say... "grep se a*.txt" :-) Cheers, Nightblade