Re: [FWP] Wanted - Have = Need

[Mark Rogaski <wendigo@pobox.com>]

An entity claiming to be John Porter (jdporter@min.net) wrote:
:
: 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. :-/
: 

Yes, but the utility of the unix tools is stretched to its limit when the
task involves a union of their respective functionalities.  I was under
that assumption that one of the reasons Perl even exists is that it was a
superset of the unix tools, like the "beads and string" analogy in the
intro to the Llama.  Remember, also, that "sort -u" is a terse symbolic
encoding for a much larger function, whereas we could avoid the -e flag and
place all the code in a file called "f" and it would be shorter than 
"sort -u".  Figuring out my point is left as an exercise to reader. ;)
Perhaps I just see the comparison as being somewhat "unfair".

Mark

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