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From: Ed Morton <mortonspam@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: a sed question
Date: Tue, 24 Dec 2024 06:20:18 -0600
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On 12/23/2024 4:57 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
> On Mon, 23 Dec 2024 07:26:15 -0600, Ed Morton wrote:
> 
>> Awk is a mandatory POSIX tool (and so available on all POSIX-compliant
>> Unix-y systems) with a tiny but powerful language focused on just text
>> processing, perl is none of that.
> 
> Perl is all of that, and more. Text processing is very much the raison
> d’être for Perl. Because it turns out it can get quite complicated.

Is perl a mandatory POSIX tool? No.
Does perl have a tiny language? No.
Is perl focused on just text processing? No.

So, is perl a mandatory POSIX tool with a tiny language focused on just 
text processing? No, as previously mentioned, perl is none of that.

     Ed.