[H-GEN] Mail program

Bradley Marshall brad at humbug.org.au
Tue Jun 29 21:08:11 EDT 2004


On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 10:43:30AM +1000, Greg Black wrote:
> Like any normal person, I just want to use the standard tools
> that are provided by my OS vendor; I certainly don't want to go
> looking for non-standard variants of those tools.  This is, in
> fact, one of the best reasons for going with my C solution.
> It's easier to read than these sed scripts and it's a million
> times more portable.

This is exactly why I use Perl in preference to awk or sed - I know that I
don't need to figure out which particular varient I'm using, since there's
only one implementation of Perl (version differences aside).

Thanks,
Brad
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