IMHO PERL is more of a programming language. Every tried to do anything rather complex in Bourne :-) On 17 Jul 2002 at 14:26, Erik Price wrote:
> > On Wednesday, July 17, 2002, at 01:05 PM, Kevin D. Clark wrote: > > > Shell scripts are like a convenient glue or maybe like a handy power > > tool (think cordless screwdriver). There's some initial learning > > I see shell scripts come with a lot of software, and linux > distributions, but it seems that when someone writes their -own- > script/tool, they do it in Perl (at least I do). For instance, Perl's > regexes are a lot easier and more precise (to me) than the bash's > globbing system. Well, I guess that's not fair, I just know a little > bit more Perl than I do bash. But what I'm wondering is if there really > are a lot of Unix systems out there that don't come with Perl, to the > extent that a script accompanying an application should be written in > bash or csh over Perl. (Not counting the super-specialized systems like > handhelds which might not have Perl for space reasons.) > > > * Like for example, the people I know who know that they want to make > > a textual replacement in, oh, a thousand files -- they either write > > a custom C program to do this, or else they make the changes > > *by hand*. Duh... > > I cannot find it for the life of me, but somewhere in the > [EMAIL PROTECTED] archives (that damnable WebObject > interface is terrible and doesn't return the matches) is a quotation by > Douglas Adams. He describes the joys of spending fifteen minutes > writing a script that he could have done by hand in five minutes. > > Come on, we've all done it. Admit it... > > > Erik > > > ***************************************************************** > To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. > ***************************************************************** -- Jerry Feldman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Associate Director Boston Linux and Unix user group http://www.blu.org PGP key id:C5061EA9 PGP Key fingerprint:053C 73EC 3AC1 5C44 3E14 9245 FB00 3ED5 C506 1EA9 ***************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *****************************************************************
