Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 7 Jun 2007 16:36:33 +0200 (CEST) | From | Jan Engelhardt <> | Subject | Re: Another version of cleanfile/cleanpatch |
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On Jun 6 2007 21:14, Oleg Verych wrote: >[] >> > Many things in XXI century still can be done by tools founded 20-30 >> > years ago. Why not try to? >> >> Because your shell script is unreadable by normal human beings[*] >> while the perl script for people with a bit of perl fu can read it >> and fix/modify it.
And because at the end of the day, the perl script might be faster than the shell script. Yes, UNIX was designed to handle fork-exec efficiently, thank God. But still.
>> We want tools that can be maintained and enhanced by most people. >> >> [*] Normal human beings are people with same level of shell >> scripting/sed skills that I have just to put that straight. > >In many cases i think, it's limiting one's imagination and expanding >laziness[0]. > >In the school algebra (usually) there are many exercises with >plain-useless equations and formulas you must solve or simplify. >Guess why? Thus my proposition. ;) > >--- >[0] Now, when most UNIX tools done with good quality (courtesy of the > GNU project), it's time not to convert programmer's laziness[1] to > ordinary one. Why there's one big and slow Bourne again shell, yet > to have fast ([d]ash) and tiny one took more time? As result more > efforts to remove bashizms...
I prefer bashisms over using a shell [referring to original sh or ksh] that can't do a sane thing.
> >[1] Ironically connected to Perl chapter of UNIX Power Tools > <http://unix.org.ua/orelly/unix/upt/ch37_02.htm>
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