I find myself writing a lot of scripts these last few weeks for work. I use sh scripting for little things like "ps | awk" but I find myself going to perl when there's any substantial level of complexity.

I have found perl a little lacking in two operations though which has turned me back to shell a few times.
  1. I want to just open a file and dump it's contents like my @contents = contents "/my/text/file"; without an 'open' in a regular script (aka not in a one-liner). my @text = grep /important/, contents "/my/text/file" would be very convenient for me. It gets to be a hassle to juggle open's in some circumstances I run across.
  2. I also want to change Perl's IRS which has been a hinderance for a while. I have made my own scripts which fix up the algorithm but I'm surprised Perl hasn't made it easier and more straight-forward.
"The three principal virtues of a programmer are Laziness, Impatience, and Hubris. See the Camel Book for why." -- `man perl`

In reply to Re: Empowered by Perl by LighthouseJ
in thread Empowered by Perl by liverpole

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