On Thu, 12 Jun 2003 09:48:31 -0400
Chun Kit Edwin Lau <try_email_me@yahoo.ca> wrote:
> In what situation does ppl normally use shell script and when
> when will ppl use Perl? How about their performance like speed and also
> the ease of programming?
In years of working on unix systems from my own personal hobbiest machine
up to my professional work in a large company I have never found a reason to
use shell outside the rare instance when it might be nice on the command line
itself. IE, stringing together a few greps with an awk or two to spit out a
certain bit of information.
Other than that Perl is easier to program in, far more portable, much
faster and far more practical than shell. Often when I encountered someone's
shell script that I needed to modify I'd just rewrite it in Perl and end up
with a far faster, far easier solution.
With that said, my preference now is Python and not Perl. Fills all the
same niches and is infinitely more maintainable than Perl which is, in turn,
infinitely more maintainable than shell.
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