On Tue, Aug 01, 2000 at 09:03:53AM +0800, John Summerfield wrote:
> >
> > It's not a perch! For bash it's a bass. :-)
> >
> > Fred
>
> There are lots of Perch; Macquarrie p, Golden p, Silver p, Nile p, Murray Cod
> (surely the biggest). And bass.
>
>
> There are different bass too; we have some in eastern Australia that may not
> be the same as those found in some parts of N America. However, they are a
> subclass of perch. At least, the Australian ones are.
Well, I'm no ichtyologist. It appears that we are *both* right. From
the colophon of the bash book:
"The fish featured on the cover...is a silver bass, one of the 400-500
species of sea bass. The silver bass, also known as the white
perch..."
So I stand corrected. :-)
Stopping before this becomes redhat-fish-list,
Fred
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one thing and do it well. Write programs to work together. Write programs that
handle text streams, because that is a universal interface.'" -- Bell Labs, the
Creation of the UNIX Operating System
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