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08-26-2008

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I'm with bakunin - GNU often overdoes bells and whistles. ksh is better, maybe in my case because I can't do "cute" things like add "seq" to further increase code obscurity.

The issue I have is porting scripts. We have old highly obfuscated Bourne shell scripts and I'm the only one with enough patience to diddle them into working when we migrate.
Even a minor change of OS release hoses these darned things.

I started C back in the 1970's when there was an explosion of languages, most of which have been relegated to the junk heap. However, I stuck with C, COBOL, assembler and whatever job control language was around. Due to lack of imagination I think. Went off on a tangent into VMS internals for a while, mostly assembler, then got back into unix in the late 1990's.

Where the languages thing got out of hand for me was in database 4GL's and 'languages' like PL/SQL and IDML. Those things have been like a blur. I worked for one company that was into the 'database du jour' concept and it was hell. Fortunately, with the exception of Oracle products, I've completely forgotten them... Mumps, Progress, Userbase, InTouch, ad nauseum. All of the marginal players in the database game.

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enchant-lsmod

enchant-lsmod(1)						   User Commands						  enchant-lsmod(1)

NAME

       enchant-lsmod -	is used to show languages and dictionaries that enchant supports.

SYNOPSIS

       enchant-lsmod [-lang [language_tag]] [-list-dicts] [-h] [-v]

DESCRIPTION

       enchant-lsmod is used to show languages and dictionaires that enchant supports.

OPTIONS

       The following options are supported:

       -lang [language_tag]    List all supported languages or show whether a specfied language is supported.

       -list-dicts	       List all dictionaries that enchant supports.

       -h		       Display the help text.

       -v		       Prints the program's version.

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWgnome-spell		   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Interface stability	     |Volatile			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       libenchant(3), enchant(1), attributes(5),

NOTES

       Written by Jeff Cai, Sun Microsystems Inc., 2008.

SunOS 5.11							    30 Jul 2008 						  enchant-lsmod(1)