On Jun 6 2007 21:14, Oleg Verych wrote:
>[]
>> > Many things in XXI century still can be done by tools founded 20-30
>> > years ago. Why not try to?
>>
>> Because your shell script is unreadable by normal human beings[*]
>> while the perl script for people with a bit of perl fu can read it
>> and fix/modify it.
And because at the end of the day, the perl script might be faster
than the shell script. Yes, UNIX was designed to handle fork-exec
efficiently, thank God. But still.
>> We want tools that can be maintained and enhanced by most people.
>>
>> [*] Normal human beings are people with same level of shell
>> scripting/sed skills that I have just to put that straight.
>
>In many cases i think, it's limiting one's imagination and expanding
>laziness[0].
>
>In the school algebra (usually) there are many exercises with
>plain-useless equations and formulas you must solve or simplify.
>Guess why? Thus my proposition. ;)
>
>---
>[0] Now, when most UNIX tools done with good quality (courtesy of the
> GNU project), it's time not to convert programmer's laziness[1] to
> ordinary one. Why there's one big and slow Bourne again shell, yet
> to have fast ([d]ash) and tiny one took more time? As result more
> efforts to remove bashizms...
I prefer bashisms over using a shell [referring to original sh or ksh]
that can't do a sane thing.
>
>[1] Ironically connected to Perl chapter of UNIX Power Tools
> <http://unix.org.ua/orelly/unix/upt/ch37_02.htm>
Jan
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