On Tue, Aug 17, 1999 at 01:08:21PM +0200, Adam Morrison wrote:
> As long as we're quoting Perl.gods, how about this one from Tom
> Christiansen's `Csh Programming Considered Harmful':
An enlightening diatribe indeed.
> Tchrist's personal rule of thumb is that if it's the size
> that fits in a Makefile, it gets written in the Bourne shell,
> but anything bigger gets written in Perl.
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> There's a reason for that; for small tasks like this, using something
> like awk for is not only clearer and more concise, it's also much
> more faster than using a monster like Perl.
[benchmark snipped]
A tool is a tool: if it's useful to you - good. If you have a large
toolbox - great. You will probably benefit from it.
I think in Perl about these things, and the time it'll take me to
look up the correct syntax for awk is longer than the difference in
run times :-)
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