On Dec 11, 2006, at 8:53 AM, H.Merijn Brand wrote:
Perl has all the advantages of any Unix tool (sh, csh, awk, sed, sort,
...)
but lacks any of their shortcomings and flaws. But I might be biased.
If "having to call the shell to use the most valuable feature of the
shell" means "has all the advantages" I guess so. If "being 50-100
times slower unless you write 50-100 times the code for the tasks the
shell is best at" is "lacking any of their shortcomings or flaws" then
I agree.
correct. Which rules out windows for being usable at all.
That was before Interix.
