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Simplicity mainly, memory management. while (<>) print; makes for a pretty simple core of cat. At the time I had written a source management system (nselite,
by luckydude 11y ago
Simplicity mainly, memory management.
while (<>) print;
makes for a pretty simple core of cat.
At the time I had written a source management system (nselite, morphed into teamware) almost entirely in perl except for one C program that was performance sensitive.
And I just really liked perl4 at the time.
- ezequiel-garzon 11y agoThanks for answering. I guess then what you had in mind was a change in the syntax of the shell itself, right? I'm a casual user of POSIX utilities and the typical shells, and have yet to try Perl! In any event, your last sentence pretty much validates what I had in mind. Thanks again.