On Sat, Dec 10, 2005 at 11:37:02AM +0900, Gregory Brown wrote:
> On 12/9/05, Chad Perrin <perrin / apotheon.com> wrote:
> 
> > Why?  Backticks are great.
> 
> Platform independence?
> 
> Granted I get away with a lot via MingGW, but if you want to code on
> Linux / OS X and work for people who want the code to run on
> Windows... well... platform independance is important
> 
> Though it does of course depend what you're working on. :)

Good point.  Okay, you win.

. . . except when I'm writing unix administration scripts.

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