> On Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 03:39:34PM +1100, Con Kolivas wrote:
> > more I tried to add to it. Also there were subtle things happening in the
> > BASH version that made for much more variation in results than this version.
>
> I agree, it had begun to outgrow it's bash roots (e.g. i think it was
> the ratio section with variables named a b c d e which drove me nuts
> when I couldn't figure out which one was giving me a zero value).
>
> > Possibly but clearly c has no major limitations once the hard part (the
> > wrapper for the other applications) has been done.
>
> I would disagree. For example, playing tricks with strings,
> pipes/redirects and files in C is a complete pain, compared with
> perl/python. Most of the things I changed with the orignal bash
> version were in this subset, and it allowed me to customise it for
> what we were doing quickly and easily.
>
Good point.
One other note, the C version should have a much smaller memory footprint then
Perl or Python - less likely to perturb test results.
Speaking for myself, i think this is such a small pile of code, it might be fun
to have a parallel Perl/Python version. (it would be a good excuse for me to
learn some Python)
My personal choice would be C to generate the data and Perl to pretty-print
it.
I need to get into the code more for STP integration, so i'll have more
opinons
soon :)
cliffw
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