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Posted May 3, 2005 12:29 UTC (Tue) by clugstj (subscriber, #4020)
In reply to: The Second Commandment of system administration (NewsForge) by evgeny
Parent article: The Second Commandment of system administration (NewsForge)

Well, if the others are written as shell scripts, then Perl does provide a speed advantage. It all depends upon what you compare it to.


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Posted May 3, 2005 13:07 UTC (Tue) by evgeny (guest, #774) [Link]

> Well, if the others are written as shell scripts

In the sentence, it's compared to tripwire and aide. These are written in C.

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Posted May 3, 2005 22:19 UTC (Tue) by rickmoen (subscriber, #6943) [Link]

evgeny wrote:

In the sentence, it's compared to tripwire and aide. These are written in C.

<pedantic>Technically, Tripwire's C++.</pedantic>

Rick Moen
rick@linuxmafia.com

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