[Tutor] Are you allowed to shoot camels? [kinda OT]
Andrew D. Fant
fant at pobox.com
Sat Feb 5 00:27:03 CET 2005
Alan Gauld wrote:
>
> I said awk was easier to learn but less capable than Perl.
>
> Perl is capable of things that awk can only dream of!
Surely you jest, Alan. :-)
Both perl and awk are turing complete, hence anything perl can do, awk
can do as well. Now, as to which one would be easier to work with for a
large scale development project, I will leave that flame-fest up to the
regulars.
Andy
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