Date: Sun, 26 May 1996 01:09:19 -0700 From: "Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com" <michaelv@HeadCandy.com> To: dima@freebsd.org (Dima Ruban) Cc: winter@jurai.net (Matthew N. Dodd), freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Adduser program in C Message-ID: <199605260809.BAA15134@MindBender.HeadCandy.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of Sat, 25 May 96 20:38:21 -0700. <199605260338.UAA00157@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>But I couldn't stay away, when somebody (don't remember his name)
>said that perl is perfect replacement for shell/awk/sed scripts.
>The idea of his entire letter was "Perl rules! I'd love to see all
>unix shell/sed/awk scripts rewritten in perl, because perl is perfect!"
I was the person who wrote that letter, and that isn't even remotely
what I said. In fact, that is almost the opposite. You have totally
misunderstood the subject.
The guy said he wanted to re-write the existing adduser program, which
is in perl, with one that is in C, because he didn't know perl.
I told him that this would be an excellent opportunity to learn perl.
I said that The Unix Way is to use lots of different tools, including
perl, awk, sh, sed, to do different tasks. I further said that he
shouldn't *just* learn perl, but that he should then move on and learn
how to combine all these other pieces in sh scripts, and get better at
using all these tools together. Perl was just one step.
I think this subject really doesn't need to fill this list any longer.
Can we drop it?
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