[Novalug] small, tight lower overhead footprint?

Mark Smith mark@winksmith.com
Mon Oct 22 02:44:25 EDT 2012


On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 01:34:43AM -0400, James Ewing Cottrell III wrote:
> On 10/18/2012 8:32 AM, Geoff McNamara wrote:
> > (n)awk is on every unix system - the others (perl,python,ruby) may or
> > may not be.
> 
> I am tired of hearing that argument. This isn't the 70s or 80s, where 
> there were zillions of UNIX versions. In most parts of the Universe...

not that i disagree with you as a basic statement, but as it happens,
the platform i am thinking about has no perl on it (sad to say).  it's
an appliance of sorts, so putting a copy of perl on it isn't really an
option.

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Mark Smith
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mark@tux.org



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