Jamie Wilkinson wrote: > As soon as you start needing to crack out the manpage for bash, it's > time to rewrite in a real language. Shell is for stream processing > and quick wrappers only, in my book. > > I hope I'm preaching to the converted though :)
My rules for scripting style tasks are something along the lines of: - Less than 20 lines, bash is ok. - Less than 100 lines, python, maybe. - Otherwise Ocaml or Haskell. Does that make me converted? Erik -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Erik de Castro Lopo http://www.mega-nerd.com/ _______________________________________________ coders mailing list coders@slug.org.au http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/coders
