No. You misread. I love Russ Cox's way of thinking and his continual generosity in sharing his work. I too use the Plan 9 base sed and grep. I'm cynical about the people who rave on about perl/javascript/python/ruby/whatever regexp, who derive some perverse joy in ridiculously complex RE and who often diss sed and all things old school as being slow or deficient in some way.
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No. You misread. I love Russ Cox's way of thinking and his continual generosity in sharing his work. I too use the Plan 9 base sed and grep. I'm cynical about the people who rave on about perl/javascript/python/ruby/whatever regexp, who derive some perverse joy in ridiculously complex RE and who often diss sed and all things old school as being slow or deficient in some way.