At 05:33 PM 2/8/01 -0800, Brian Ingerson wrote:
>Paul Prescod wrote:
>>
>> Wouldn't a bash binding be pretty weird? Do you want to embed bash in
>> Perl?? I thought Perl made the shell languages obsolete!
>>
>
>Actually I think that Inline::Bash (really just Inline::Sh, but cooler
>name) would be one of the more useful modules. Perl is great for most
>things. sh is better for some. Using them together blows.
>
>This initiative would be towards leveraging the existing Inline syntax
>for coding Perl callable sh functions. Nothing would be precompiled like
>in other Inline modules.
>
I'm in favor of generality, and the idea of Inline::anything is really
cool, but I'm having trouble imagining anything for which sh is better
than perl. I'd be really interested an example ... perhaps I'm also
missing some advantages you might get from Inline rather than backticks
or
perl -e'use Shell;print ls'
LEo
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