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From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.de>
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Subject: Re: Who needs Perl? (Was: cvs commit: src/share/doc/handbook ...)
In-Reply-To: <199611161229.NAA07216@uriah.heep.sax.de> from J Wunsch at "Nov 16, 96 01:29:06 pm"
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J Wunsch writes:
> (Moved to -chat, for obvious reasons. ;)
>
> As Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
>>> I'm guessing sed, I thought Jordan had a disdain dislike for perl.  :-)
>>
>> sed, definitely.  I mean, who needs perl when you've already got
>> sed, sh and awk? :-)
>
> Those who are too impatient to wait until sh, sed, and awk are ready
> with fork()ing and execve()ing... :-)

Looks like you're solving the wrong problem here.  How about faster
fork and execve?  Then you don't need to learn another YACL.

Greg