John Baldwin wrote: >On Wednesday 06 September 2006 21:15, Julian Elischer wrote: > > >>Maxim Sobolev wrote: >> >> >> >>>Why not just write simple 5-line script in your favorite scripting >>>language (perl, python, ruby etc) that does just this and forget about >>>it? I don't think performance is really a concern here since the most >>>time this program will spend waiting for the I/O anyway, so that doing >>>it in C makes little or no sense. >>> >>>IMHO this is one of the reasons we do have all those lightweight >>>languages around - to avoid having separate utility and/or command >>>line option for each and every particular situation. >>> >>>-Maxim >>> >>> >> >>perl is not lightweight to install on a machine. >>have you seen how much crap gets installed when you add perl? >> >>lightweight is adding 100 instructions or so to 'date'. >>or adding the strftime instruction to awk (as it is in gawk) >> >> > >Why not install the gawk port on the machines you need this on rather than >perl and use gawk then? It doesn't look to be that heavyweight of a port. > > so, instead of "add 20 lines of C and make something generally usefull, install another entire program"Received on Thu Sep 07 2006 - 16:33:59 UTC
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