begin quoting Martin Dietze as of Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 12:46:49AM +0100: [snip] > And honestly, having written several thousands of LOCs in Bourne > Shell, bash and Perl I simply cannot agree that Perl code is in > general easier to understand and maintain (actually, I've seen > much more write-only code written in Perl than in just about any > other language).
Perl requires more work than usual to keep it clean. If you lack the discipline to keep bourne-shell scripts readable, you're not going to stand a chance in perl. :) And I *like* perl. > Finally another general point - if you need to copy / move stuff > around in the file system and do simple filtering jobs, the > shell is the most natural way to do this. A shell script is thus > the most natural way of automating this. Yup. > I would never trust any > system administrator who does not like the shell. Yup. I get bothered by developers who can't work with a shell. They're going to spend a lot of effort doing things the hard way. -- Stewart Stremler -- To unsubscribe, send mail to [email protected].
