[ale] Bash vs Perl

[Steve Litt]

On Mon, 24 Oct 2016 12:00:59 -0400 (EDT)
Chris Fowler <cfowler at outpostsentinel.com> wrote:

> > From: "Jim Kinney" <jim.kinney at gmail.com>
> > To: "Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts - Yes! We run Linux!" <ale at ale.org>
> > Sent: Friday, October 21, 2016 8:00:46 PM
> > Subject: Re: [ale] Bash vs Perl  
> 
> > Parsing text in bash is much harder than in Perl. Associative
> > arrays in bash really help.  
> Yes. I do know you can do regex, but those features come at the cost
> of portability. 
> 
> The biggest ding in bash over perl could be the expense of fork().
> Using bash features that are not portable could recoup those. 

I use bash for stuff bash works for. If I need better performance in a
portion of the program, I can use Perl, Python or C for that part. For
sections where I need more sophisticated data handling, I can use Perl
or Python.

 
SteveT

Steve Litt 
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