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- From: tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
- Subject: Re: Octal chmod status
- Message-ID: <1992Aug20.030305.15096@news.eng.convex.com>
- Date: 20 Aug 92 03:03:05 GMT
- Article-I.D.: news.1992Aug20.030305.15096
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- From the keyboard of jerry@incc.com (Jerry Rocteur):
- :In article <1r!n6yd.messina@netcom.com>, messina@netcom.com (Tony Porczyk) writes:
- :> Tom Christiansen <tchrist@convex.COM> responds to Marc Unangst:
- :>
- :> >Big deal. That infinitesimal time difference is surely not
- :> >worth all the hassle of writing a C program for each and every little
- :>
- :> Even though I agree that the perl solution was fine (by being so
- :> small), but I do not understand the bruhaha about the "hassle" of
- :> writing a C program for small tasks. It is often much simpler and
- :> *faster* to write the C code than to implement other solutions. At
- :> least it is much more *readable* than the aformentioned perl script...
- :>
- :> t.
- :Does this not depend on your skills ?????
-
- Of course: if you knew nothing but assembly language, then you'd write
- code in nothing but that, and I would write hundreds of times more
- programs than you, solving hundreds of times more problems. Knowing a
- variety of tongues and the constraints of the problem, you can select the
- best tool for the task at hand, and go on to write another program.
-
- :If Mr Christiansen is not familiar with C then maybe his choice is
- :something else !!!
-
- Please don't vous me -- I hate "Mr.", as it implies a difference of
- station I am not comfortable with. My name is Tom. Please use it.
-
- I assure you, Jerry, (ou est-ce que je dois dire "M. Rocteur"?),
- that I understand C quite well, which is why I often use perl,
- at least when awk will not suffice.
-
- :You use your skills as best as you can, as long as you know yours and
- :your tools limitations, but C does not have many :-)
-
- If you believe this, then you are clearly unfamiliar with the C
- programming language. There are issues of programmer efficiency and
- administrator efficiency that are directly compromised when one elects C
- in the face of sh/sed/awk or perl solutions. I've written on this before,
- and others have written about this matter in these threads, so I will
- not repeat myself, at least for now.
-
- --tom
- --
- Tom Christiansen tchrist@convex.com convex!tchrist
- Unix is like a toll road on which you have to stop every 50 feet to
- pay another nickel. But hey! You only feel 5 cents poorer each time.
- --Larry Wall in <1992Aug13.192357.15731@netlabs.com>
-