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Fri, Feb 09, 2007

Scripting languages

Posted at 9:14 pm MST to Code

My normal working language is perl. I've used it for more than a decade, and I can make it jump through hoops.

Before I switched to perl, I did most of my scripting in korn shell, including some large and complicated scripts. I can still remember when I translated one to perl for the first time and it sped up emormously because I was able to store arrays in memory.

I'm currently working with some large scripts (one is 2500 lines) written in cshell which is not considered optimal for scripting, though it is a good interactive shell. I need to pull the functionality into korn shell scripts on the front end scripts and perl on the server side.

I am putting as much functionality as possible into the backend script because I have been spoiled by the power of perl, and I think that if they want more pulled back into the front end it will be easier for me to translate from perl to korn shell than from cshell directly to korn shell.

One of the things that's driving me nuts trying to write korn shell again it the fact that it is fussy about white space in a way that perl is not. It's coming back fairly quickly, but my fingers need to remember the syntax.

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