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- From: pomeranz@irving.nas.nasa.gov (Hal R. Pomeranz)
- Subject: Re: How to convice awk/sed users to use Perl ?
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- Date: Thu, 10 Sep 92 16:59:08 GMT
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- I'll play Devil's advocate in the Vatican (we all know Larry's got
- religion anyway). There is one case where necessity forces one to use
- ksh/sed/awk instead of Perl, and that's at boot time. "But Hal," I
- hear you cry, "just but a (statically linked) copy of Perl in /sbin."
- Unfortunately, we've got 300+ standalone machines of varying
- architecture and lack of disk space and nobody to do the maintainence
- of Perl full time. So, while I'd like to rewrite all my /etc/rc*
- files in Perl, it ain't gonna happen anytime soon.
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- Hal Pomeranz Senior Member of Technical Staff NASA Ames Research Center
- pomeranz@nas.nasa.gov pomeranz@cs.swarthmore.edu
- "Tell me are we living or are we wasting time?" --Law and Order
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