There's nothing wrong with borrowing anything from either sed or awk, or any other program for that matter, as long as it adds something usefull.
That's opensource for you!
I'm not crazy...Everyone is hyping perl and I thought I was the only one to think that perl sucked...
Perl regexp's are one of the few things I actually do like in perl, sure, they can get hairy, sure, they can be hard to maintain, but it's very powerfull, and if you split everything up in multiple lines and add comments they can also be readable and maintanable...(then again, if the code was hard to write, it should be hard to read
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Java great?
I must admit don't have alot (actually none, apart from looking at it) programming experience with java, but this is due to my bad user experience with java.
It's slow for a starters, really, REALLY slow.
It's not available for all platforms, FreeBSD binairy's have only recently been released, and what about NetBSD? and a hunderd other platforms?
Also, it's OO, I know that OOP is being hyped by alot of people, but my experience is that it's only usefull in some rare circumtances, and slower in all circumstances.
I suppose I'm just not a OO kind of guy...