Re: C or Perl? Which is the better script language? (Formely:Re: Delphi Dusts Visual Basic)

Roy Wagner (roywagner_at_aol.com) wrote:
: I've just started to learn/use PERL and, having formerly done some C
: programming, am very impressed with the capabilities of PERL. You can do
: almost every you can do in C (the interface language is purposely
: "identical") without the many frustrations that managing C programming
: entails.

How is perl as compared to sed and awk? I have not written any sed and awk code, but I have seen some and they look very criptic to me. Is perl a good alternative to these other unix "languages"?

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