[wellylug] Help in finding a good technical/Linux related bookstore

[Andrej]

On Thursday 14 June 2007 09:28, Cliff Pratt wrote:

> Awk is OK but even with sed and bash, it's not really up to
> the stuff that is easily doable in Perl (or one of those other
> languages). A Perl RE is much more flexible than awk for
> parsing and processing log files, for example.
As I said ... it all depends on the complexity of the task.
And perl is a cannon in comparison to sed and awk. Nothing
wrong with using the #1 screwdriver even though one likes the 
#2 and #3 better ... 


> Use java? Are you serious? A perl or even shell script can be
> hacked around a lot easier than a java one.
Of course not.  I hate java.  What I was trying to say is that
people always tend to push their preferences w/o consideration
of the requirements.  Java/Perl/Python may not always be the
best tool for the job (even though I'm sure that hardliners of
all of these walks will claim differently ;}).

Cheers,
Andrej

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