On Sun, 28 Dec 2014, Sven Schreiber wrote: > However, maybe you and Jack should have a private discussion about this, > because the user manual is full of such examples involving string > substitution, and then there's the quote "It’s amazing what string > substitution can do for you, isn’t it?" (from section 16.3 in the manual).
I remember writing that sentence. String substitution is a great thing in scripting languages. As a heavy bash user, I absolutely love it. The problem is, it makes it very difficult to optimise a language for speed and efficiency. ------------------------------------------------------- Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Sociali (DiSES) Università Politecnica delle Marche (formerly known as Università di Ancona) r.lucchetti(a)univpm.it http://www2.econ.univpm.it/servizi/hpp/lucchetti -------------------------------------------------------
