Re: [PATCH] Replace perl code with pure shell code

From: Randal L. Schwartz <merlyn@stonehenge.com>
Date: Jan 29, 2007, 13:21 UTC
Message-ID: <864pqadl4v.fsf@blue.stonehenge.com>
In-Reply-To: <dbfc82860701290517p739c78a1td05fd0900e280515@mail.gmail.com>

>>>>> "Nikolai" == Nikolai Weibull <now@bitwi.se> writes:

Nikolai> On 1/29/07, Randal L. Schwartz <merlyn@stonehenge.com> wrote:

>> >>>>> "Nikolai" == Nikolai Weibull <now@bitwi.se> writes:
>>

Nikolai> We do require a POSIX-compliant version of sh already, right?

>> 
>> OK, sorry for raising the flag.  I just know that writing portable shell
>> is far trickier than writing portable Perl, so I get overly cautious
>> on anything that wasn't in Unix V7.

Nikolai> No problem; I wasn't sure on the current requirements myself :-). Nikolai> It's too bad that not all the great stuff one can find in Bash and Zsh Nikolai> were in the original...

I'll probably seem like a traitor to my tribe for saying this, but if zsh or gnu awk had been around at the time Perl was created, we wouldn't have seen Perl. Of course, Perl has gone far beyond the "awk replacement" as originally planned, but who knows what might have happened next?

-- 
Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095
<merlyn@stonehenge.com> <URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/>
Perl/Unix/security consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc.
See PerlTraining.Stonehenge.com for onsite and open-enrollment Perl training!