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authorJesse Vincent <jesse@bestpractical.com>2010-12-09 15:07:19 -0500
committerJesse Vincent <jesse@bestpractical.com>2010-12-09 15:50:52 -0500
commit9ef3b85fb7eb5182857d0323451548cf3339b325 (patch)
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parent883fe89561e0fcac4c196d2dc8b053fcc30afdd2 (diff)
downloadperl-9ef3b85fb7eb5182857d0323451548cf3339b325.tar.gz
Remove a paragraph from perl.pod pimping it as a sed/awk replacement.
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@@ -287,12 +287,6 @@ files look like hashes. Setuid Perl scripts are safer than C programs
through a dataflow tracing mechanism that prevents many stupid
security holes.
-If you have a problem that would ordinarily use B<sed> or B<awk> or
-B<sh>, but it exceeds their capabilities or must run a little faster,
-and you don't want to write the silly thing in C, then Perl may be for
-you. There are also translators to turn your B<sed> and B<awk>
-scripts into Perl scripts.
-
But wait, there's more...
Begun in 1993 (see L<perlhist>), Perl version 5 is nearly a complete