Jungshik> On Fri, 23 Mar 2001, Mark Leisher wrote:
>> Oops. I missed a spot.
Jungshik> Isn't this mistake implying that you're still in favor of 'sed'
Jungshik> over 'perl' for this kind of simple operation :-) ?
Shhhh. Don't tell anyone :-)
Jungshik> It seems to me a bit ironic that those who must be aware of all
Jungshik> sorts of sed/awk wizadry try to do everything they used to do
Jungshik> with 'sed/awk/tr/uniq/join/sort/split/cut/....' with perl
Jungshik> alone. For some cases, perl appears to me too 'heavy'.
I quite agree, but Perl is more likely to be on a Windows machine than sed.
I still enjoy hacking scripts with 'sed/awk/tr/uniq/join/sort/split/cut/....';
there is a certain craftsman-like elegance to knowing and using the
appropriate tool for the job.
It won't be long before they all deal with Unicode/ISO10646 and we can get
back to constructing obfuscated shell scripts using our favorite set of
utils. Perl puts too much emphasis on solving the problem and not enough on
the process of solving the problem :-)
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