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This comment is not nearly as useful as one that gives examples about your reasoning (or at least a link to such.)

• DannoHung 17y ago
  Sorry, I thought people would be intrigued and google it. http://betterthangrep.com/ http://betterthangrep.com/ A quote: "ack is a tool like grep, aimed at programmers with large trees of heterogeneous source code. ack is written purely in Perl, and takes advantage of the power of Perl's regular expressions."
  • ori_b 17y ago
    Ack could have been done just as well with a 10 line shell wrapper around grep. It would have been much faster, on top of being simpler.
    • DannoHung 17y ago
      Put thine code where thy mouth is.