Backtick versus $()

[Chip Camden]

Quoth Chad Perrin on Thursday, 24 February 2011:
> On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 03:32:04PM -0800, Chip Camden wrote:
> > Quoth Gary Gatten on Thursday, 24 February 2011:
> > >
> > > Everyone is wrong! "pfmsh" is the best at everything, period.  It
> > > does everything you can possibly think of today and tomorrow.  It
> > > doesn't require any upgrades, ever.  It's 100% secure.  It doesn't
> > > use any memory or other resources, $hit, it doesn't even need to be
> > > installed; it just "magically" works.
> > > 
> > > There you have it.
> > 
> > That one doesn't seem to be in ports.
> 
> In case you aren't just being sarcastic, I think "pfmsh" is a reference
> to "pure fucking magic shell".
> 
> -- 
> Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ]


Yeah, I got that.  Sorry my contributions to the topic are mostly
flippant.  In my defense, I thought about responding to the "backslash
orgy" comment along the lines of "nobody mentioned orgies -- count me
in!"  But then I though better of it.

Doh!

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