From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1QN8Vx-00058E-BD for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 19 May 2011 19:04:05 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 83DC31C0BB; Thu, 19 May 2011 19:00:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ironport2-out.pppoe.ca (ironport2-out.teksavvy.com [206.248.154.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 618821C0BB for ; Thu, 19 May 2011 19:00:29 +0000 (UTC) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Ar0GABdo1U3O+LF0/2dsb2JhbACYFY1+eIhwvwmGGQSUToZLhAk X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.65,238,1304308800"; d="scan'208";a="114266487" Received: from 206-248-177-116.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO waltdnes.org) ([206.248.177.116]) by ironport2-out.pppoe.ca with SMTP; 19 May 2011 15:00:27 -0400 Received: by waltdnes.org (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Thu, 19 May 2011 15:01:10 -0400 From: "Walter Dnes" Date: Thu, 19 May 2011 15:01:09 -0400 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] is a nice "place" :-D Message-ID: <20110519190109.GA12968@waltdnes.org> References: <4DD1AEC8.5010501@earthlink.net> <201105182103.47416.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> <20110518201513.GA3116@acm.acm> <201105182228.55775.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <201105182228.55775.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 5c0b8eec8af70a8efb5e6bccb0c17470 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