I agree that portability is very important. I work...

2009-02-25T22:07:00.000+02:00

I agree that portability is very important. I work on Windows, Linux and my beloved Mac every day. There really is no reason not to have cross-platform applications this day & age.

I use grep on the shell every day, but sed and awk mostly in scripts and makefiles, which is why I wrote this post. Anything they do, you can do in Perl in almost the same effort. Python takes a bit more typing, but the readability is worth it, in my humble opinion.

I'd tend to agree, although portability is more of...

2009-02-25T11:26:00.000+02:00

I'd tend to agree, although portability is more of an issue for me than readability. I traverse between Linux and Windows-land quite a lot, and I'd be amongst the first to appreciate the value of a cross platform scripting language.

Grep, sed, awk and find are my dear friends though, and I can't say I can bear to leave them behind for too long.

Comments on Gilad Naor's Blog: Why Not to Write Shell Scripts

I agree that portability is very important. I work...

I'd tend to agree, although portability is more of...