What's wrong with your HEAD?

[pier4r]

(10-07-2018 09:31 PM)John Keith Wrote:  It still irks me that such basic commands as HEAD and TAIL were not better thought out.

With nowadays experience that a lot of software improves over time, I find it ok to first have a solution (the HEAD, TAIL commands) that spares me the time to code a similar routine. The optimizations can come after.
This is possible with products that are subject to upgrades, with a discontinued product one has to accept what one has.

Or one waits for gold code like the one from DavidM (or one does his own code).