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- From: lusol@Lehigh.EDU (Stephen O. Lidie)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
- Subject: Re: ksh 1, perl 2 - ksh or perl for scripting?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec21.180610.24523@Lehigh.EDU>
- Date: 21 Dec 92 18:06:10 GMT
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- In article <ASH.92Dec21095237@ulysses.mr.ams.com> ash@ulysses.mr.ams.com (Alan
- Harder) writes:
- >
- >Hi, all. We are currently trying to decide if we should move from
- >/bin/sh as our language for production scripting to ksh, or if we
- >should move to perl instead. Is anyone out there using perl as their
- >production scripting language of choice?
- >
- >
- >
- >-Alan Harder
- > ash@math.ams.org
- >
- > My opinions are not the opinions of the American Mathematical Society.
- > Did you think they were?
- >
-
- Sometimes even I don't use Perl..... but mostly I do. Gave up all shells/sed
- awk/grep/egrep/fgrep long ago.....
-
- Why I use Perl:
- . Perl outperforms ksh and friends essentially all the time
- . Perl has no hidden arbitray limitations - too many scripts
- fail due to line length problems, core dumps, etc.
- . I only have to know one language and one regular expression
- language.
- . I like lists
-
- Summary: Perl is my production scripting language. Perhaps a bit
- 'notatioanally cluttered', but far better than what else is out there. Now,
- I can't wait for Perl 5 'cause I need user defineable TYPEs/structures!
-
- SOL
-