From: "Geo" 

"Paul Ranson"  wrote in message
news:42f89fbe{at}w3.nls.net...

> FWIW his competence level can be estimated as 'low' because it took him
some
> hours to work out how to write an elementary shell script.

I don't think that's a fair assumption without knowing his experience level
with the language? He could be really good at assembler and this is
something new for him. (or he could be as you describe, I'm just saying
it's a guess not a sure thing)

Geo.

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