From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Nov 17 05:10:37 1996 Return-Path: owner-chat Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id FAA18269 for chat-outgoing; Sun, 17 Nov 1996 05:10:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from mexico.brainstorm.eu.org (root@mexico.brainstorm.fr [193.56.58.253]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id FAA18264 for ; Sun, 17 Nov 1996 05:10:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from brasil.brainstorm.eu.org (brasil.brainstorm.fr [193.56.58.33]) by mexico.brainstorm.eu.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id OAA12695 for ; Sun, 17 Nov 1996 14:10:23 +0100 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by brasil.brainstorm.eu.org (8.6.12/8.6.12) with UUCP id OAA31865 for chat@FreeBSD.ORG; Sun, 17 Nov 1996 14:10:10 +0100 Received: (from roberto@localhost) by keltia.freenix.fr (8.8.2/keltia-uucp-2.9) id NAA19768; Sun, 17 Nov 1996 13:25:40 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: Date: Sun, 17 Nov 1996 13:25:40 +0100 From: roberto@keltia.freenix.fr (Ollivier Robert) To: chat@freebsd.org (FreeBSD Chat) Subject: Re: Who needs Perl? (Was: cvs commit: src/share/doc/handbook ...) References: <199611161229.NAA07216@uriah.heep.sax.de> <199611171001.LAA25467@freebie.lemis.de> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.50.05 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT ctm#2686 In-Reply-To: <199611171001.LAA25467@freebie.lemis.de>; from Greg Lehey on Nov 17, 1996 11:01:41 +0100 Sender: owner-chat@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk According to Greg Lehey: > Looks like you're solving the wrong problem here. How about faster > fork and execve? Then you don't need to learn another YACL. When the equivalent of a few lines of Perl is several sed/awk/cut in shell (commonplace), even with a faster fork/exec, Perl will still be faster. If anything, you'll fork/exec Perl faster :-) For many tasks over 20 lines of shell script, Perl will be faster. There are some things I'd consider difficult with sh/awk/sed that are almost trivial with Perl. C wil be faster but unless you don't know Perl at all, you'll end up writing it faster in Perl... Of course Real Programmers(TM) use Fortran. :-) -- Ollivier ROBERT -=- The daemon is FREE! -=- roberto@keltia.freenix.fr FreeBSD keltia.freenix.fr 3.0-CURRENT #28: Sun Nov 10 13:37:41 MET 1996