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Hello Bob - 

BS> Just to keep anyone interested updated, Jerry Coffin has
BS> volunteered to moderate the C++ List and Curtis Rendon has
BS> volunteered to moderate the Python List. I expect to
BS> announce a DOS List moderator within the next 1-2 days. 

BS> The DOS archives are mostly up, but not really ready yet.
BS> The Python site doesn't actually exist yet except as a work
BS> in progress page. The Python site does, however, have the
BS> beginnings of a source file archive thanks to some stuff
BS> that Curtis has been sending me. 

re: Python (picture of a rat on the book cover?) 

I'm a bit prejudice (ok, more than just a bit) and I don't
really understand why the entire world runs away from AWK and
creates more interpreted languages. Why not just extend AWK to
do whatever people think it can't do now and have done with it?
I get the impression the success of the author? of PERL at
combining bits and pieces of other scripting languages has
hooked everyone's ego that they too can become "mighty men of
renknown in our time". :-\ 

Too much redundancy IMO. 

Also continue to suggest that a description within an index
such as: 

"Mark Corgan's functions for indexing and looking up data in
text files" 

should be: 

"text files / indexing and looking up data in / functions for /
Mark Corgan" 

and likewise: 

"Ray Gardner's scalar date functions plus other date and time
functions" 

should be: 

"date and time functions / scalar date functions plus other /
Ray Gardner" 

People really _do_ use primary, secondary, and tertiary
'fields' if they detect that they exist within the data (index).
;-)

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