Cheating at a company group activity using Unix tools

Re:Cheating at a company group activity using Unix tools by Lamad123 on Monday December 13, 2021 @05:07AM (#29538271)

I heard awk is extremely fast, much faster than Python.

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Re:Cheating at a company group activity using Unix tools by ccalloway on Monday December 13, 2021 @07:43AM (#29539036)

Yes, but execution speed (of things like creating a lookup table from the second and third fields in each line) is rarely the operative constraint.

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Re:Cheating at a company group activity using Unix tools by jes on Monday December 13, 2021 @09:26AM (#29539836)

What is most often the operative constraint?

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Re:Cheating at a company group activity using Unix tools by ccalloway on Monday December 13, 2021 @11:56AM (#29541388)

Time spent maintaining your script by your future co-workers.

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Re:Cheating at a company group activity using Unix tools by revscat on Monday December 13, 2021 @12:00PM (#29541439)

It is, but it's much closer to perl when it comes to maintainability.

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Re:Cheating at a company group activity using Unix tools by hansel_der on Monday December 13, 2021 @07:52AM (#29539100)

i heard python is among of the slowest

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