Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!abcfd20.larc.nasa.gov!news.larc.nasa.gov!scott From: scott@tab29.larc.nasa.gov (Scott Yelich (ODU) ) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: What's wrong with this Bourne shell script? Message-ID: Date: 9 Aug 90 13:40:16 GMT References: <1990Aug3.193231.3166@silma.com> <1990Aug5.123522.28149@cbnewsj.att.com> <9053@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV> Sender: news@abcfd20.larc.nasa.gov (USENET File Owner) Organization: NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, Va. 23665 Lines: 38 In-Reply-To: lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV's message of 7 Aug 90 20:31:20 GMT >: 1) I would not do it in perl-- I hate it when people ask about bourne >: shell and other people reply with perl.... >I refrain from labeling this as Irrational Prejudice, but it sure looks >like it. >In the second place, Andy asked if there was a better way. Even if *you* >don't think it is a better way, you shouldn't try to keep other people >from helping. I never said it wasn't a valid or even possibly better-- I simply said that when people ask for SH and other people reply with PERL, something must have been lost in the translation... If I want SH and I ask for SH and I get PERL... I wonder... Perhaps Andy did ask for a better way-- others haven't. Yet, what makes PERL a better way? Especially for some of these one liners! >I hate it when people think we're espousing Perl as the One True Way. >Perl is just another tool. Use where appropriate. Don't use where not. Perl is another tool. I am attempting to decipher it.... but when someone asks me for SH, I give them SH. If they ask for a better way, I usually wait for you to respond with Perl. > Those are my Irrational Prejudices. Granted. -- Signature follows. [Skip now] ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Scott D. Yelich scott@[xanth.]cs.odu.edu [128.82.8.1] After he pushed me off the cliff, he asked me, as I fell, ``Why'd you jump?'' Administrator of: Game-Design requests to ODU/UNIX/BSD/X/C/ROOT/XANTH/CS/VSVN/ -----------------------------------------------------------------------------