On 2020-07-18 22:08, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
On Sat, Jul 18, 2020 at 09:31:29PM +0100, mick crane wrote:
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You see perl one liners and sed mentioned loads more than awk on the
interweb.
Don't know why that is.
ISTR Perl had a bout of onelineritis back in its youth. This tends
to be somewhat detrimental to a language, because people tend to
believe this is the way you program.
Of course, hacking oneliners (with some measure) can be fun and
help in the language's mastery, but really doing serious work in
this way would be akin to writing a book on differential equations
in kōan form.
Cheers
-- t
they do work tho' and can be astonishingly quick
cheers
mick
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