On Jul 17, 2006, at 6:08 PM, Eric Wilhelm wrote:
And I really have to ask why you need to fork a perl one-liner in your
ruby :-) If ruby's C API is so sweet and it has threads, just embed a
perl interpreter in a thread.
At the risk of starting an argument, there are plenty of things that
perl does (especially on the command line) that are rather powerful.
I normally use perl where I would use awk, and this seems like a
great application.
While his example is intentionally simple (all it does is print to
stdout), something like this doesn't get expressed as well in ruby or
awk:
perl -ne '/(foo)(bar)/; reverse $1; print "$1$2"'
It also doesn't really lend itself to going to the effort of
embedding the perl interpreter (which is rife with leaks, last I
checked) either.
/me removes himself from the soapbox
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Erik Hollensbe
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