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Subject:Re: Setup vs Set up [was Log in vs. login] From:sphilip <philstokes03 -at- googlemail -dot- com> To:<Brian -dot- Henderson -at- mitchell1 -dot- com> Date:Wed, 23 Jan 2013 23:12:15 +0700
> -----Original Message----- Chris Despopoulos
> Pretty soon we'll be communicating exclusively via Unix commands.
On 23 Jan 2013, at 21:07, <Brian -dot- Henderson -at- mitchell1 -dot- com> wrote:
> You are a horrible and evil person for putting that idea out into the
> Universe.
I love it! Just think how much more value our profession would have if, like Doctors and Pharmacists, we had our own special language that mere mortals would have to ask us to decode and recode for them. I'm going to tell my next boss to
function betterLateThanNever
{
x="give me a pay rise - press '1' for 'YES!'"
echo -n $x
read answer
case $answer in
1 ) echo "About time, too, thanks."
;;
* ) echo "Maybe you didn't hear me, I said"; echo $x
esac
exit 0
}