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A comment on Ask YC: What's on your "Holy Shit" list?.
Oh, and CPAN.
A Slashdotter once posted an insightful comment about cron being the 'height of computing': http://linux.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=323287&cid=209...
Easy to take cron for granted these days, but I have to say I agree.
As for unix pipes, I once explained how one of my shell scripts worked to a longtime Windows programmer and he literally said, "Holy shit!" when the pipes concept clicked.
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Oh, and CPAN.
A Slashdotter once posted an insightful comment about cron being the 'height of computing': http://linux.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=323287&cid=209...
Easy to take cron for granted these days, but I have to say I agree.
As for unix pipes, I once explained how one of my shell scripts worked to a longtime Windows programmer and he literally said, "Holy shit!" when the pipes concept clicked.