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On Fri, Dec 22, 2006 at 03:44:22AM -0500, Sean Conner wrote:
> It was thus said that the Great Anton Berezin once stated:
> > On Fri, Dec 22, 2006 at 02:43:08AM -0500, Sean Conner wrote:
> >=20
> > > Um ... <raises hand> ... I'd like somethimg a bit more consistent.
> > >=20
> > > A typical programic idiom I use (when programming in C) is:
> > >=20
> > > if (argc =3D=3D 1)
> > > do_some_process(stdin);
> > > else
> > > {
> > > for (i =3D 1 ; i < argc ; i++)
> > > {
> > > input =3D fopen(argv[i],"r");
> > > do_some_process(input);
> > > fclose(input);
> > > }
> > > }
> > >=20
> > > So imagine my surprise when:
> > >=20
> > > if (scalar(@ARGV) =3D=3D 1)
> > > { # the one bit of consistancy I can do without actually
> > > &do_some_process(STDIN);
> > > }
> > > else
> > > {
> > > for ($i =3D 1 ; $i < scalar(@ARGV) ; $i++)
> > > {
> > > open INPUT,$ARGV[i];
> > > &do_some_process(INPUT);
> > > close INPUT;
> > > }
> > > }
> >=20
> > Now, this is just silly. This reminds me of someone complaining that P=
erl
> > sucks because Perl code is difficult to read by C programmers. Perl is
> > hateful, but not for these reasons. You are just trying to write C her=
e.
>=20
> Um ...
>=20
> Unix is written in C. Perl came to life in the Unix universe. Plenty =
of
> Unix utilities like cat, sed, od, grep and less (and more) can be used on
> files or in pipes. This idiom is pretty strong in the Unix world. Perl
> seems to go out of its way to prevent this (or is that me as a C programm=
er
> speaking?)
No.
You just don't seem to know Perl.
Abigail
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