I don't received the original question but I can write about sed
and awk.
'sed' is a stream editor, with very complicated commands derived
from the old editor 'ed'. It's suited for edit pipelines on shell
scripts, and I've used it occasionally for little hacks.
'awk' is a surprisingly powerful interpreted language, for
text processing and number crunching. It is old fashioned, but
resembles C and perl. I like it and use it very much to process
and analyze data in text files. It's also useful for extracting
reports (remember perl!? ;). I have some statistical scripts in
awk and I think it is very fast to prototype little and medium
sized applications. But I think nearly nobody is using it nowadays.
On Fri, 19 Mar 1999, Denis Voitenko wrote:
> That is really a bad question. If you know an idea of what each does, then
> why are you asking? Ok, I will answer:
>
> C/C++ is good for big projects. Well, C isn't, but ++ is. C++ is object
> oriented and, of course, compilable.
>
> Perl is very nice for text processing (it is not a word processor though :-)
> and number crunching. I find Perl a very easy language to program in. It has
> only one problem, it does not compile too well. The only compiler I could
> find and try did not do a very good job.
>
> Bash is just a Unix shell. You can write short (and long) scripts in it for
> quick and dirty work. Nothing serious though.
>
> CGI is not a language at all. CGI stands for Common Gateway Interface and
> mostly used on WWW servers -- thus it is a server-side application capsula.
> You can write CGI in almost every language there is, Perl, C/C++ or even
> Fortran (yep, I've written those just to prove that it is possible).
>
> and I do not have any experience with SED or AWK so forgive me.
>
> Denis Voitenko
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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