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From: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>
To: Richard Salz <rich.salz@gmail.com>
Cc: TUHS main list <tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Book Recommendation [ reallly inscrutable languages ]
Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2021 13:05:39 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CANCZdfq0GNYnzLLoCp8POk5EB_M-yjs02AbPvurykX7xu0pk2A@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFH29tr5EO4EUvLBy=DNw_FTvwq9nPr0R4QSd6uZKkMSKNZQZA@mail.gmail.com>

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On Tue, Nov 16, 2021 at 12:55 PM Richard Salz <rich.salz@gmail.com> wrote:

>
> My belief is that perl was written to replace a lot of Unix pipelines,
>>
>
> This is true.  I heard it from Larry himself :)
>

It's certainly what his posts from the time said: Perl was written to cope
with the hodge-podge
of awk / sed / etc scripts that grew in complexity, but not quite having
the power to solve
the problems past a certain point in complexity in an understandable,
digestible way. Perl
was designed to provide an 'all of the above' language that gave a better
framework to
the pipelining and data processing and transformation than shell + sed +
awk could with
its disparate utilities.

One can debate the extent to which these goals were fulfilled, of course,
but that's
what Larry was saying on USENET in the late 80s.

Warner

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  reply	other threads:[~2021-11-16 20:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-11-16 17:00 [TUHS] Book Recommendation Douglas McIlroy
2021-11-16 17:54 ` [TUHS] Book Recommendation [ reallly inscrutable languages ] Jon Steinhart
2021-11-16 17:57   ` Ron Natalie
2021-11-16 18:00   ` Dan Cross
2021-11-16 18:04   ` Larry McVoy
2021-11-16 19:53     ` Richard Salz
2021-11-16 20:05       ` Warner Losh [this message]
2021-11-17 19:12   ` Norman Wilson
2021-11-17 20:46     ` Dan Stromberg
2021-11-17 20:52       ` Warner Losh
2021-11-17 21:17         ` Dan Cross
2021-11-17 22:21           ` Rob Pike
2021-11-18  0:35             ` Larry McVoy
2021-11-19 20:04               ` Alan Glasser
2021-11-19 20:14                 ` Larry McVoy
2021-11-19 21:48                   ` Alan Glasser
2021-11-19 22:28                     ` Larry McVoy
2021-11-19 23:17               ` Alan Glasser
2021-11-18 21:03             ` George Michaelson
2021-11-18 21:39               ` Rob Pike
2021-11-17 22:36     ` Bakul Shah
2021-11-18  0:56       ` Dan Stromberg
     [not found] ` <CAKH6PiXinxBQGRqoeGMcG9CwTA5BNeU-LY164f-ZLYA4obsyuA@mail.g mail.com>
2021-11-16 18:47   ` [TUHS] Book Recommendation John Foust via TUHS
2021-11-16 20:35 ` Bakul Shah
2021-12-02 21:35 ` Duncan Mak
2021-12-02 22:32   ` Bakul Shah
2021-12-02 22:34   ` Rob Pike
2021-11-16 19:29 [TUHS] Book Recommendation [ reallly inscrutable languages ] Douglas McIlroy
2021-11-16 19:54 ` Jon Steinhart
2021-11-18 18:47 Paul Ruizendaal via TUHS
2021-11-18 19:03 ` arnold
2021-11-18 19:16   ` Chet Ramey
2021-11-18 19:20     ` arnold
2021-11-18 21:03   ` John Cowan
2021-11-18 21:42 ` Rich Morin
2021-11-18 22:59 Nelson H. F. Beebe

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