Re: handy shell function/alias that wraps bc

From	Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
Newsgroups	comp.unix.shell
Subject	Re: handy shell function/alias that wraps bc
Date	2025-11-05 00:06 +0000
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On Tue, 4 Nov 2025 16:49:57 -0600, Ed Morton wrote:

> On 11/2/2025 7:53 PM, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:
>>
>> On Sun, 2 Nov 2025 16:58:54 -0600, Ed Morton wrote:
>> 
>>> On 11/1/2025 3:21 PM, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On Sat, 1 Nov 2025 11:47:47 -0500, Ed Morton wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> It's not clear why you'd use bc instead of awk to evaluate the
>>>>> expression, e.g. using any POSIX awk:
>>>>
>>>> I never bothered with Awk. I realized early on that Perl did
>>>> everything that Awk could do, and a lot more, just as concisely.
>>>
>>> Conciseness is brevity plus clarity and perl scripts are invariably
>>> missing one of those qualities.
>> 
>> Nope. Things like “perl -lne” or even “perl -lnep” allow you to write
>> short one-liners that are just as powerful as anything in Awk.
> 
> Standard perl proponent type of response there.

Which doesn’t exactly refute my point, does it?

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