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Subject: Re: Make, Scripts, Shell, Perl!?
From: Kay-Uwe Kasemir <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Date: Mon, 27 Jan 1997 18:07:51 -0700
Hi Noboru, Hi all:

>>Currently also a UNIX-shell, grep, awk, ls, sed, date, basename, ...
>
>It is possible to write perl scripts for most of these tools, isn't it?
>For UNIX users, like us, these tools are free (well almost).

I would still consider myself a UNIX user,
just not blind to portablility  ;-)

YesNo:
One could replace most of grep & Co by Perl scripts.
In fact you don't even have to for WIN32,
because we found some grep, awk, sed, ...
to make EPICS compile there.

But why not look for a single, common tool?
I don't see any reason for writing UNIX-only scripts,
making porting to WIN32, VMS etc. as painful as possible
while we are given a way to avoid this.

Whenever someone intends to write a new script
which is essential to EPICS/base, the makesystem, ...
he/she should try to make it portable
and right now I would suggest Perl for that task.

-Kay



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