Date: Sun, 26 May 1996 13:30:02 -0700 (PDT) From: "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb> To: dima@FreeBSD.org (Dima Ruban) Cc: michaelv@HeadCandy.com, lithium@cia-g.com, joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Adduser program in C Message-ID: <199605262030.NAA14422@freefall.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <199605250814.BAA16824@freefall.freebsd.org> from "Dima Ruban" at May 25, 96 01:14:18 am
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Dima Ruban wrote: > > Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com writes: > > > > However, I think you'd be doing yourself a real favor by learning perl > > (and awk, sed, sh, grep, cut, etc.). It's The Right Thing To Do. > > It's The Unix Way: use small simple tools that are very good at a > > First: this is not small tool. correct. > Second: this is slow tool. hmm... i wonder. how about writing and timing a coupleof script that you have in sed | awk | sh | whatever and timing the same in perl, just curious ;) > Third: this is not standard unix tool. in FreeBSD it is. /usr/bin/perl. jmb ps. majordomo is perl, anyone care to rewrite it in sh | sed | awk or tcl or whatever? -- Jonathan M. Bresler FreeBSD Postmaster jmb@FreeBSD.ORG FreeBSD--4.4BSD Unix for PC clones, source included. http://www.freebsd.org/
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