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- From: Tom Christiansen <tchrist@convex.COM>
- Subject: Re: Shell Scripts vs. C programs
- Originator: tchrist@pixel.convex.com
- Sender: usenet@news.eng.convex.com (news access account)
- Message-ID: <1992Aug31.235508.4320@news.eng.convex.com>
- Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 23:55:08 GMT
- Reply-To: tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen)
- References: <1992Aug31.211738.1909@tjhsst.vak12ed.edu> <la5b90INN6v8@almaak.usc.edu>
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- Keywords: shell script, C
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- From the keyboard of ajayshah@almaak.usc.edu (Ajay Shah):
- :When the script gets too large, it's easier to debug C instead
- :of sh/sed/awk. There are better debugging tools for C (a
- :weakness of the sh/sed/awk paradigm which sounds fixable to me).
-
- I have to admit that there are times I write in perl instead
- of sh/sed/awk just because perl has a symbolic debugger for
- it and those don't.
-
- --tom
- --
- Tom Christiansen tchrist@convex.com convex!tchrist
- Steinbach's Guideline for Systems Programming
- Never test for an error condition you don't know how to
- handle.
-