[ILUG] Opposite of Cat >>

[Padraig Brady]

David Golden wrote:
>> b.t.w., I'm told O'Reilly's sed & awk book (or is it awk & sed?)
>> is good ....  I cannot vouch for that book myself, as I learned
>> sed (and awk) the hard way.
>>
> 
> It is good, so is "Mastering Regular Expressions"  - which is probably
> better, in fact, and covers a lot of the same ground, but deals with
> regular expressions in other software too.  Such as the frankly terrifying 
> (but cool) ones in perl.

They can't be that good if they're going to change them in Perl 6:
http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2002/06/04/apo5.html
Basically Larry's admitting the the current situation
(at least for regular expressions) is an unreadable mess.
I think he's trying to turn it into Python :-)
The previous 4 Apocalypses are here:
http://dev.perl.org/perl6/apocalypse/

Padraig.