Re: [dev] [PATCH] sbase: add cut

[hiro]

because suckless lol

On 8/2/12, Kurt H Maier <khm-suckl...@intma.in> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 01, 2012 at 11:02:52PM +0100, Nick wrote:
>>
>> Bah. There's a balance to be struck. Scripts which aren't awful
>> should be supported. The issue is whether using cut constitutes
>> 'awful'. I think it does not. There are legitimate cases where it's
>> simpler and clearer than awk/sed.
>>
>
> The question is: since cut can be implemented IN awk, why should it get
> a separate C binary?  Anyone nattering about performance in a shell
> script is barking up the wrong tree.
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