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And computers were invented to calculate things [citation needed] but we do not group them with abacuses (well, when defining what a computer is we might but you know what I mean).

They have feelings too, ya know.

I'm so adjective, I verb nouns!

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(OT) Re^3: Perl Jobs on offer
by planetscape (Chancellor) on Nov 29, 2008 at 03:16 UTC

    I am reminded by your sympathy towards the feelings of computers of Kryten's lament when told that "There is no such thing as Silicon Heaven!":

    Then where do all the calculators go?

    HTH,

    planetscape
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      I have to watch Red Dwarf right now!

      I'm so adjective, I verb nouns!

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Re^3: Perl Jobs on offer
by Porculus (Hermit) on Nov 30, 2008 at 23:44 UTC

    Many people use computers as a faster, better, more flexible way of doing the same jobs that their predecessors did with typewriters and slide rules. And, yes, we recognise that the computer as a whole is a different beast from these older, more specialised technologies... but we most certainly do group computer word processors with typewriters. We do group computerised calculators with slide rules.

    Many people use Perl as a faster, better, more flexible way of doing the same jobs that their predecessors did with shell scripts. Many people even call Perl one-liners from shell scripts, as a more robust and portable alternative to awk or sed. I've done it myself, where (for example) I needed to cope with null bytes, but I didn't have a mandate to rewrite the entire complicated script in Perl. Well, if that kind of thing is what the job involves, then how else would you expect them to describe it?

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