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>doce ut discas</I
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>How did I come to write a scripting book? It's a strange
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tale. It seems that a few years back I needed to learn
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shell scripting -- and what better way to do that than to read a
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good book on the subject? I was looking to buy a tutorial and
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reference covering all aspects of the subject. I was looking for a
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book that would take difficult concepts, turn them inside out, and
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explain them in excruciating detail, with well-commented examples.
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In fact, I was looking for <EM
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>this very book</EM
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or something very much like it. Unfortunately, <A
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>it didn't exist</A
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>, and if I wanted it,
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I'd have to write it. And so, here we are, folks.</P
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>That reminds me of the apocryphal story about a mad
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professor. Crazy as a loon, the fellow was. At the sight of a
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book, any book -- at the library, at a bookstore, anywhere --
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he would become totally obsessed with the idea that he could have
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written it, should have written it -- and done a better job of it
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to boot. He would thereupon rush home and proceed to do just that,
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write a book with the very same title. When he died some years
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later, he allegedly had several thousand books to his credit,
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probably putting even Asimov to shame. The books might not have
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been any good, who knows, but does that really matter? Here's
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a fellow who lived his dream, even if he was obsessed by it,
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driven by it . . . and somehow I can't help admiring the old
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