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> Last I looked at the source for GNU parallel it looked like mountains upon mountains of Perl I would rather not depend upon, personally, but to each his own.
by arrakeen 5y ago
> Last I looked at the source for GNU parallel it looked like mountains upon mountains of Perl I would rather not depend upon, personally, but to each his own.
i used parallel for years under the assumption that it was written in C and only recently learned it was written in perl when i decided to dive deeply into its documentation. if you're using a package manager to install parallel and it runs fast enough for your needs (it does) then who cares what language it was implemented in?
- cb321 5y agoSome users like to add their own features or have problems to debug. They surely care. Others may want to move coordination to a remote host and care about some single-file transfer of the exact version of the tool. They also care. It's ok that you don't, personally, of course.