From: Mike Rhodes <rhodes553@...>
Date: 2004-05-04T11:13:58+09:00
Subject: Re: What do you use Ruby for?

On 2004-05-03 18:50:03 -0400, Mike Hall <mghall@NOenteractSPAM.com> said:

> Glenn  wrote:
> 
> Playing with MIDI files: taking them apart, analyzing music, prototyping
> new chaos and random MIDI generators, prototyping algorithms that
> will be written in assembly language for an 8-bit micro, most text processing
> (although 'awk' is still a great one for that since so much is done 
> automatically).

Thank you! I can't tell you how annoyed I get when I hear people 
talking about AWK as if it were a dead language. AWK == KISS.

Mike