Date: Sat, 25 May 1996 10:29:30 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: dima@FreeBSD.org (Dima Ruban) Cc: michaelv@HeadCandy.com, lithium@cia-g.com, joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Adduser program in C Message-ID: <199605250829.KAA26162@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199605250814.BAA16824@freefall.freebsd.org> from Dima Ruban at "May 25, 96 01:14:18 am"
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(Also moved to -chat) > First: this is not small tool. > Second: this is slow tool. > Third: this is not standard unix tool. Fourth: `Second' and `Third' are wrong. :) Perl is certainly one of the fastest scripting languages. Perl is getting more and more standard, it's not only FreeBSD that ships with it installed by default, or at least readily available on the intallation medium. (Of course, the last is also true for Tcl.) > Perl is one of those tools. > > I can't agree. But you fail to explain your reasons for disagreeing. ;) I've seen more than one person finally pick my advise, and use Perl instead of sh/awk/grep/... for more complex projects. Mind you, these are people who know their tools well, my colleague is in Unix since the 2BSD era. However, shell is a rather poor programming language in several respects (have you ever seen a shell quotation orgy?), so for more complex tasks, learning something else pays off quickly. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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