[comp.unix.wizards] What is a wizard?

ken@rochester.ARPA (Ken Yap) (04/29/87)

I think the chart would be more realistic if we compared the classes
doing the same task.

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PROBLEM: change 100 .pas files in a directory to .p

Beginner: Gets his friend to do it for him.

Novice: Types in all 100 mv commands at the terminal.

User: Does a ls into a file and edits it to give 100 mv foo.pas foo.p
lines, then runs the script.

Hacker: Writes a 50 line C program to do it and posts it to the net.

Guru: Does it with a one line pipeline or an interactive for loop.

Wizard: Uses an undocumented option in mv that she put in 6 years ago.

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	Ken

ram@nucsrl.UUCP (Renu Raman) (05/03/87)

    Well, in the same spirit of naming wizards, I have this one for chips.

    Sometime back, I read somewhere that UNIX on a chip would be probable.

    If I get to name that project, I would call it "CHIX".

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