Like Anthony Esposito in Nov 2003, I had a need recently to persuade some folks
to use Perl rather than Unix shell and remembered this old thread. I've
summarized my arguments at:
http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=668481
Feedback welcome.
Thanks,
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On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 12:57:41PM -0800, Andrew Savige wrote:
Like Anthony Esposito in Nov 2003, I had a need recently to persuade
some folks to use Perl rather than Unix shell and remembered this
old thread. I've summarized my arguments at:
http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=668481
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Anthony Esposito) writes:
How would you convince someone that programming in Perl is better than
using the UNIX Korn Shell?
I need some 'intellectual ammo' to convince my colleagues that Perl is a
better, more powerful language, to do our
Tim Maher [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
[...]
This means shell programmers have to learn other technologies to
get any real work done, and for UNIX/Linux folks, the best choices
are Perl, Awk, and then grep/sed/sort/find/tr/col/dd/m4, etc.
Someone had mentioned that there is no CPAN for the
Esposito, Anthony [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
How would you convince someone that programming in Perl is better
than using the UNIX Korn Shell?
I wouldn't. I use both.
Here's one argument -- the titles of my reference books for each.
Programming Perl, 3rd edition, Wall,
Ben Okopnik [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
[...]
As a small comparison, one of my students had a shell script that
processed a pair of files, about 75MB each, by doing _something_ (I
don't remember the exact details) that involved taking a line from file1
and doing something to every line in
--On Wednesday, November 05, 2003 15:44:17 -0600 Jonathan Scott Duff
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 04:19:44PM -0500, Esposito, Anthony wrote:
How would you convince someone that programming in Perl is better than
using the UNIX Korn Shell?
I need some 'intellectual ammo' to
On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 04:19:44PM -0500, Esposito, Anthony wrote:
How would you convince someone that programming in Perl is better than
using the UNIX Korn Shell?
I agreed with many of the comments others gave on this thread,
regarding how each has its merits. To summarize a bit and add my
Shell scripting is just that. Scripting. Its difficult to make
reusable code and even more difficult to extend. Perl is a full
featured programming language. It works wells with the UNIX Shell and
is often used in place of scripting languages. I got my start
converting shell scripts to perl
On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 04:19:44PM -0500, Esposito, Anthony wrote:
How would you convince someone that programming in Perl is better than
using the UNIX Korn Shell?
I need some `intellectual ammo' to convince my colleagues that Perl is a
better, more powerful language, to do our
On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 04:19:44PM -0500, Esposito, Anthony wrote:
How would you convince someone that programming in Perl is better than
using the UNIX Korn Shell?
I need some 'intellectual ammo' to convince my colleagues that Perl is a
better, more powerful language, to do our scripting.
On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 04:19:44PM -0500, Esposito, Anthony wrote:
How would you convince someone that programming in Perl is better than
using the UNIX Korn Shell?
I need some 'intellectual ammo' to convince my colleagues that Perl is a
better, more powerful language, to do our
Esposito, Anthony wrote:
How would you convince someone that programming in Perl is better than
using the UNIX Korn Shell?
I need some intellectual ammo to convince my colleagues that Perl is a
better, more powerful language, to do our scripting. Any suggestions? J
The shell doesn't do most
Chris Benson wrote:
If you do want ammo, my war-story is: I'm doing some Perl courses at IBM
in the UK, Perl is *the* scripting language used for writing tests and
product builds for MQ, the SSA disk group ... and the Java development
group. Their main requirements are a common language
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