[hinkley]

You generally shouldn’t use absolute paths in your programs. That makes it dangerous for local development, and makes running two copies of the program to compare behaviors difficult.

There’s a Venn diagram of people who don’t care enough to do that (works for me!) and people who would never think to use c-reduce. It’s not a perfect circle, but it’ll be fairly close.

[somat]

> You generally shouldn’t use absolute paths in your programs.

This is true, but I was enjoying the irony that there is an old sys-sdmin adage that you should only use absolute paths in your program(usually a shell script, in this environment) this is to make sure it is running exactly what you expect it to run.

So always put "/usr/bin/awk" instead of just "awk"

I had a co-worker once who took this as gospel. His scripts were always... interesting... to port to a new environment.