[ale] Bash vs Perl

[leam hall]

My unsolicited opinion, based off using Ruby, is that if the cost of a fork
is critical use C or Go. Otherwise, "a difference that makes no difference
is no difference".

On Mon, Oct 24, 2016 at 12:00 PM, Chris Fowler <cfowler at outpostsentinel.com>
wrote:

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> *From: *"Jim Kinney" <jim.kinney at gmail.com>
> *To: *"Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts - Yes! We run Linux!" <ale at ale.org>
> *Sent: *Friday, October 21, 2016 8:00:46 PM
> *Subject: *Re: [ale] Bash vs Perl
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> Parsing text in bash is much harder than in Perl. Associative arrays in
> bash really help.
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> Yes.  I do know you can do regex, but those features come at the cost of
> portability.
>
> The biggest ding in bash over perl could be the expense of fork().  Using
> bash features that are not portable could recoup those.
>
> For those not following, text processing in shell is accomplished using a
> pipeline into other programs that my pipe into other programs.  For small
> jobs this expense in minimal.  Large jobs may not have the budget...
>
> When I use shell to do X and that X includes a database insert it is many
> times faster for me to just have bash create a SQL file and then I import
> that.  The alternative is 1000s of fork then exec sqlite3 or mysql for each
> row.  Just the nature of the shells.  We have languages that can grab and
> maintain a database handle.
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> On Oct 21, 2016 6:33 PM, "Chris Fowler" <cfowler at outpostsentinel.com>
> wrote:
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>> Not a rant or question, just a thought.
>>
>> I've been working on "Jenga Linux" and since I do not have many perl
>> modules until later in the build of LFS 7.10 I'm sticking to bash as much
>> as possible.  GNU STOW is an exception, but it uses perl in /tools from
>> chapter 5 until it can be installed in chapter 6. Beyond that , the only
>> perl module in chapter 5 is XML::Parser.  I could install all modules
>> needed in /tools and use them in chapter 6, but I'm forcing myself to
>> expand my bash experience by using what most other disti creators use.
>>
>> It would nice to find a book titled: "Bash for Perl Programmers".  Very
>> simple tasks I do in Perl are a struggle in bash.  Stack Exchange is not
>> short on answers.
>>
>> Chris
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