Perl comes installed on all modern Unixes. It's pretty dang portable.
I'm not a fanatic, but why is it easier to learn the basics like
REGEXP's with sed than perl? I'm of the opinion that you'll get farther
faster, if you start with the basics in perl and move forward in
complexity as you need. And perl is pretty beginner friendly.
On Thu, 2002-10-17 at 15:44, Jim Wildman wrote:
> Which sort of defeats the portability issue...
>
> Refusing to use anything other than /bin/sh and your basic Unix 'common
> denominator tools' is a great way to force yourself to learn all kinds
> of applications.
>
> comm, cut, sort, awk, sed, ls, the testing flags within the shell, find,
>
> Granted, Perl in particular was written to do a 'better' job than
> these tools. But for a learning experience, nothing beats the basics.
> And once you have the basics down cold, adding something like Perl, or
> Python really makes a difference.
>
> Kind of like really good mathmaticians have the addition, subtraction,
> multiplication and division down cold before trying Calculus, etc.
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Jim Wildman, CISSP jim@rossberry.com
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>
> On Thu, 17 Oct 2002, Ronan Heffernan wrote:
>
> > Unless you are bound by distribution constraints, I strongly recommend
> > Python (Perl is supposed to be almost as good) rather than shell
> > scripting. For power, portability, extensability, etc. these scripting
> > languages have great advantages over shell interpreters. The one
> > drawback is that you must have the Python or Perl interpreter in-place
> > for this to work.
> >
> > --ronan
> >
> >
>
>
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