Messages in this thread |  | | From | (Gert Doering) | Subject | Re: Perl make depend made faster (fwd) | Date | Thu, 19 Sep 1996 15:11:31 GMT |
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Mr. Jolt Cola <msmith@quix.robins.af.mil> writes:
>I wish you guys with Microsoft Fail would take pity on us unix slobs >and hold it to 80 chars per line. :P
>> I know it would be far fetched to say that you know me, but I have NOT >> installed perl and I don't expect to. Over anything I favor c-programs and >> I never make anything else myself (including scripts). >> >> I think Linus' version of the make depend was a LOT better than anything else
>I think Linus' version is great, but it does not mean that C is the >fastest, easiest, and probably most bug free way to accomplish a >task.
Maybe not, but it's the proper way to accomplish a *time-consuming* task.
C is simply faster than Perl, and if speed wasn't important here, we would have stayed with AWK. So what?
(BTW: The program is ugly, but *quite* portable)
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