Re: [MacPerl] Parsing Script

[Rich Morin <rdm@cfcl.com>]

At 20:24 -0800 on 1/15/98, Chris Nandor wrote:

> I am also still thinking about how to pass an arbitrary sort routine, but
> this would be a nice option in addition to that, I think.

Back in 1975 or so, I wrote up a quick and dirty sort utility for a CDC
3800 running "Drum Scope".  The sort was implemented in Fortran and passed
pairs of records to a user-defined comparison function.  I had to work hard
to convince my boss that we needed it, but he soon realized that it was a
pretty handy utility.  On the other hand, I never did convince anyone of
the value of using database systems...

"Ah, but I was so much older then; I'm younger than that now..."

-r

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