Rob Landley wrote:
>
> You mean "The new shell script is much simpler, about 1/4 the size, runs on
> Red Hat 9 from 2003, and isn't perl?" :)
>
And introduces unclear environment dependencies depending on how
external utilities are implemented.
The whole point of why that script was written in Perl was to have
access to arbitrary-precision arithmetic -- after it was shown that bc
would simply lock up on some systems.
-hpa
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