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- From: asherman@laser.fmrco.com (Aaron Sherman)
- Subject: Re: How to convice awk/sed users to use Perl ?
- In-Reply-To: pomeranz@irving.nas.nasa.gov's message of Thu, 10 Sep 92 16:59:08 GMT
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- References: <1992Sep10.120901.25673@uvaarpa.Virginia.EDU>
- <1992Sep10.165908.21609@nas.nasa.gov>
- Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 14:34:29 GMT
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- >>>>> pomeranz@irving.nas.nasa.gov (Hal R. Pomeranz) said:
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- pomeranz> I'll play Devil's advocate in the Vatican (we all know
- pomeranz> Larry's got religion anyway). There is one case where
- pomeranz> necessity forces one to use ksh/sed/awk instead of Perl, and
- pomeranz> that's at boot time. "But Hal," I hear you cry, "just but a
- pomeranz> (statically linked) copy of Perl in /sbin." Unfortunately,
- pomeranz> we've got 300+ standalone machines of varying architecture
- pomeranz> and lack of disk space and nobody to do the maintainence of
- pomeranz> Perl full time. So, while I'd like to rewrite all my
- pomeranz> /etc/rc* files in Perl, it ain't gonna happen anytime soon.
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- An excellent argument for having the MANUFACTURER put perl on the
- distribution media. That way you make room for perl when you install,
- and don't have to think about it on your own. (isn't the first time
- I've thanked the devil... >;-)
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- -AJS
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- PS: I would rewrite the rc scripts in a pseudo-language that I would
- write the parser for in perl (of course, I would allow it to contain
- perl code if needed)...
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