From: "Walter Dnes" <waltdnes@waltdnes.org>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] is a nice "place" :-D
Date: Thu, 19 May 2011 15:01:09 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110519190109.GA12968@waltdnes.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201105182228.55775.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>
On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 10:28:55PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote
> The difference between bash and perl?
>
> Perl was inspired by a linguist, who at least puts his foot down at
> the truly crazy suggestions. Bash has no such thing.
Perl is a bloated mediocre operating system, complete with repo (CPAN).
But it lacks a lightweight extraction/reporting language. BTW, the most
powerful little-known gem in bash is that you can open filehandles to do
sequential reads and writes, just like in BASIC. For examples, see...
http://blogmag.net/blog/read/48/File_descriptors_in_shell
--
Walter Dnes <waltdnes@waltdnes.org>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-05-19 19:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-05-16 23:10 [gentoo-user] is a nice "place" :-D Felix Miata
2011-05-16 23:33 ` Alan McKinnon
2011-05-17 0:36 ` Willie Wong
2011-05-17 0:38 ` Felix Miata
2011-05-17 7:25 ` Neil Bothwick
2011-05-17 10:43 ` Pandu Poluan
2011-05-17 13:10 ` Juan Diego Tascón
2011-05-17 13:36 ` Alex Schuster
2011-05-17 13:51 ` Juan Diego Tascón
2011-05-17 14:34 ` Pandu Poluan
2011-05-17 17:38 ` Stroller
2011-05-18 10:17 ` Neil Bothwick
2011-05-18 19:03 ` Alan McKinnon
2011-05-18 20:04 ` Neil Bothwick
2011-05-18 20:15 ` Alan Mackenzie
2011-05-18 20:28 ` Alan McKinnon
2011-05-19 19:01 ` Walter Dnes [this message]
2011-05-17 14:30 ` David Haller
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