Re: lisp scripts

Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> writes:

On 09.02.2025 18:21, Dan Espen wrote:

gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) writes:
 

In article <voajsf$nd2k$1@dont-email.me>,
Dan Espen  <dan1espen@gmail.com> wrote:
...

... to Perl.
... something any programmer could readily understand.

>
I'm sure opinions will vary on that.

 
They guy that wrote the sed/awk stuff agreed.

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Curious; do you mean the authors of those languages or the
authors (pl.) of that unspecific mentioned "sed & awk" book?
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Given clarity/cryptically of syntax (and their semantics)
these three languages (Awk, Perl, Sed) for sure vary a lot!

This was an app developed by one of my co-workers.
The app consisted of many shell scripts and many invocations of
awk and sed.  There were dozens of files in the app.  I was trying to
fix it and worked on it for quite some time before I decided it was too
many files and too many different languages being used.

I ended up re-writing the whole thing as a single Perl script.
The whole thing was all in one file and much easier to understand.
As I said, the original author agreed.

Perl can be cryptic if you use the cryptic parts of the language.
I don't. 

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Dan Espen