From: Casper Boden-Cummins 
Date: Thu Oct 31 14:17:15 GMT 1996

I'm a programmer & system administrator. I work almost exclusively in UNIX,
with about 6 years' experience. Where money's concerned, I program mostly
in INFORMIX-4GL, a fourth generation language for relational database
applications. Recently, I've committed myself to the system administration
role, since it's a whole lot more interesting than programming business
app's to spec'.

I write shell scripts (k/sh) at every opportunity, and use UNIX utilities
with relish. I enjoy combining the power of the shell with tools like [gn]awk, 
sed and the myriad other nifty filters and utilities available, and look
forward to picking up one of the more up-to-date awk replacements such as perl
or python.

Probably the most complex sed script I wrote before joining seders doesn't
amount to much: a basic formatter to take the output of ls -lR and indent each
subdirectory according to its depth. It was more a challenge to see in
how few commands it could be done. I've learnt a great deal about sed since
joining seders, and have even been persuaded now to run some crazy sed site.

sed is a perfectly bizarre utility, but it's fast and surprisingly powerful
(rather like a Turing Machine...). If someone asked me to switch to another
washing powder, I think I'd refuse outright.

Casper Boden-Cummins,
bodec@sherwood.co.uk.