Date: Sun, 17 Nov 1996 11:01:41 +0100 (MET) From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.de> To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG (FreeBSD Chat) Subject: Re: Who needs Perl? (Was: cvs commit: src/share/doc/handbook ...) Message-ID: <199611171001.LAA25467@freebie.lemis.de> 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
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