On Thu, 2010-10-28 at 15:53 -0400, Kevin D. Clark wrote: > My boss later told me that he estimated that this shell script saved > the company well over a half-a-million dollars. > > Later, after my night of feverish shell-script hacking, I rewrote the > script in Perl (because 3000-line shell scripts are hard to grok...) > and I did lots of other cool stuff with this new version of the > script. > > If I hadn't been able to easily prototype this thing in terms of a > shell script, it would have taken me a long, long time to get it > done...if ever...
Getting that much code to work was quite an achievement for your night's effort. Rewriting it in Perl was a great kindness to the person who inherits the maintenance task. -- Lloyd Kvam Venix Corp DLSLUG/GNHLUG library http://dlslug.org/library.html http://www.librarything.com/catalog/dlslug http://www.librarything.com/catalog/dlslug&sort=stamp http://www.librarything.com/rss/recent/dlslug _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
