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> I seldom have to do so, so either you miss or don't know about builtin > features or (re)usable and portable modules, or I don't use the features you > miss from the shell. Using pipes and filters from Perl is extremely cumbersome. Those are the best features of the shell. Things like complex and obscure parameter prefixes and quoting hell are the worst features of the shell, and most of what Perl borrowed from the shell. > If a project/scripts gets big enough to warrant any other language than 'sh', > I usually experience the opposite. fgrep is faster than grep is faster than sed is faster than awk is faster then perl If the projects/scripts get big enough to warrant any other language than "sh" they're generally too big for Perl either, because the things that *I* find frustrating about the shell are there in Perl too. > > > correct. Which rules out windows for being usable at all. > > That was before Interix. > Which is installed on, err, 0.005% of the windows systems I get to work with. Yes, that used to be my experience with Perl on UNIX. The one thing positive I've heard about Vista is that they're including Interix.
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