Re: [FWP] Wanted - Have = Need

[John Porter <jdporter@min.net>]

Elaine -HFB- Ashton wrote:
> John Porter [jdporter@min.net] quoth:
> *>
> *>fgrep -v -f have wanted
> 
> comm -2 want have

What I think is interesting is that this seems to show
that in many people's minds, the problem domain for which
perl is suited overlaps greatly with the problem domain
which the unix tools were created to address.
And perl isn't always the winner. :-/

As a concrete example, perl's data structures are always
managed in memory; while things like sort and merge have
been written to utilize on-disk buffers when necessary.
(Hmm... smells like an RFC...)

-- 
John Porter


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