From owner-freebsd-current Thu Sep 30 12:45:20 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from zippy.cdrom.com (zippy.cdrom.com [204.216.27.228]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C6187150A5 for ; Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:44:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkh@zippy.cdrom.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zippy.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA67919; Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:44:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkh@zippy.cdrom.com) To: Joe Abley Cc: Garrett Wollman , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FICL breakage... In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 30 Sep 1999 22:36:41 +1200." <19990930223641.B16798@patho.gen.nz> Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:44:17 -0700 Message-ID: <67915.938720657@localhost> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Anyway, all good to know. There are almost certainly more perl > speakers than awk speakers these days, so it probably makes sense > to do these things in perl rather than awk. I think that's sort of in the grey area. There are also many Hardened Traditionalists(tm) like myself who don't know perl and have no interest in learning it because everything they ever need to do can be handled by sh, awk and sed and they spent many years gaining that level of proficiency with them. We could color our ls and replace sh with bash too, but sometimes there's value in retaining the simpler traditions as you also go forward with the newer tools. :-) - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message