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From: "Sabherwal, Balvinder (MBS)" <Balvinder dot Sabherwal at mortgagefamily dot com>
Subject: RE: Sybperl Vs Shell Scripts
Date: May 7 2002 7:15PM
-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Peppler [mailto:mpeppler@peppler.org]
Sent: Thursday, March 28, 2002 10:03 AM
To: SybPerl Discussion List
Subject: Re: Sybperl Vs Shell Scripts
Sabherwal, Balvinder (MBS) writes:
> I am looking for some inputs from you in order to present some facts
about
> the capabilities of sybperl which are lacking in shell scripts and also I
> need to make a compelling argument to use perl instead of shell scripts.
>
> Can anyone help me get this info or point me to some place where I cam
find
> some info so I can get some information. The questions I am looking to
get
> answered are :
>
> Why should we use perl instead of shell scripts??
> What features perl/sybperl offers that are not in shell scripts?
> How is perl beneficial as compared to shell scripts??
>>> perl scripts are much faster than shell scripts.
How ??
>>>perl scripts allow much better error control and recovery.
>>>sybperl (vs. isql in shell script) is *much* faster, *much* better
>>>error control, greatly expanded usage flexibility.
In what terms is sybperl faster than the isql in shell scripts??
>>>perl scripts can use eval {} to catch fatal errors in deeply nested
>>>code and cleanly restart/retry/abort in case of errors.
How is this different than trap in shell scripts??
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