Scott Francis@xgranade@wandering.shop that word will forever remind me of this section from UNIX Power Tools that describes the operation of sed(1) as “a deliberate scrivener” https://users.softlab.ntua.gr/~sivann/books/OReilly%20Bookshelf/unix/upt/ch34_17.htm
Cassandra is only carbon now@darkuncle@infosec.exchange That.... is not how I would have ever thought to describe sed.
Scott Francis@xgranade@wandering.shop right?! (UPT is probably my favorite technical book of all time)
Cassandra is only carbon now@darkuncle@infosec.exchange sed feels more like casting an esoteric spell than writing, personally. I can always understand if I take time to break down the incredibly compact syntax, but it takes a moment.
Scott Francis@xgranade@wandering.shop certain tools you can tell just by looking at them came from an era where every byte of memory was expensive and constrained