Date: Sat, 25 May 1996 16:04:59 -0700 (PDT) From: dima@FreeBSD.org (Dima Ruban) To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de Cc: dima@FreeBSD.org, michaelv@HeadCandy.com, lithium@cia-g.com, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Adduser program in C Message-ID: <199605252305.QAA19014@freefall.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <199605250829.KAA26162@uriah.heep.sax.de> from "J Wunsch" at May 25, 96 10:29:30 am
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J Wunsch writes: > > (Also moved to -chat) > > > First: this is not small tool. > > Second: this is slow tool. > > Third: this is not standard unix tool. > > Fourth: `Second' and `Third' are wrong. :) Don't think so. > Perl is certainly one of the fastest scripting languages. fastest scripting language != fastest programming language. I don't think perl script is going to be faster when the same C program. About scripting language ... One of my clients had chat script for his WWW server written on perl. Standard load average on this machine was 40-70!!!!! And now it keeps under 10 only becasue I wrote this script on C. > Perl is getting more and more standard, it's not only FreeBSD that > ships with it installed by default, or at least readily available on > the intallation medium. getting standard != standard (again) Maybe some day, when computer will have lotsa memory and at least 10 times faster CPUs, maybe then perl will become standard or something. > (Of course, the last is also true for Tcl.) > > > Perl is one of those tools. > > > > I can't agree. > > But you fail to explain your reasons for disagreeing. ;) well, from you side - maybe yes, but not from mine. I don't realy want to argue. I don't make any sence. Because I don't realy think, my explanations to you or your explanations to me will change something. For you pelr is cool, because you can write program w/o any problems in notime. For me it's bad, because I DO care about how fast it is going to work and how many system resources it will requre. That's the point. > > > I've seen more than one person finally pick my advise, and use Perl > instead of sh/awk/grep/... for more complex projects. Mind you, these > are people who know their tools well, my colleague is in Unix since > the 2BSD era. However, shell is a rather poor programming language in > several respects (have you ever seen a shell quotation orgy?), so for > more complex tasks, learning something else pays off quickly. > > -- > cheers, J"org > > joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE > Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-) > -- dima
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