[csense]

> Why would you want to use plain old "grep" instead of "ack"?

1. Because all the cool kids are doing it.

2. Because I hate Perl.

[koenigdavidmj]

Why is your Perl hate relevant? It can be written in COBOL for all I care; I'm just using a tool to find files. I don't spend my days browsing through the source code of random tools.