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A comment on Antique BeOS Content by Scot Hacker (2011).

Re:Antique BeOS Content by Scot Hacker (2011) by xrd on Monday January 15, 2018 @02:15AM (#16149081)
I love these quotes from the "BeOS Heads for the Mainstream" article of April, 1999:

"Other important languages, such as perl, have also been ported and are fully functional."

"Thus, BeOS applications are currently scriptable from both bash and Python."

18 years ago. Perl and Python.

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Re:Antique BeOS Content by Scot Hacker (2011) by xrd on Monday January 15, 2018 @02:17AM (#16149092)
If you wanted to learn bash scripting, there is some fun stuff in here:

http://birdhouse.org/beos/byte/24-scripting_the_bfs/

$ ThisCity=$(catattr META:city "$This Person" | cut -f3 -d:)

The value of $ThisCity is now "Munster Hamlet" whenever the script is passing over the file "Walter Mitty."

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Re:Antique BeOS Content by Scot Hacker (2011) by kbp on Monday January 15, 2018 @12:44PM (#16152039)
> 18 years ago. Perl and Python.

Perl 18 years ago is pretty standard.

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