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From: Ian Wienand <ianw@gelato.unsw.edu.au>
To: Con Kolivas <conman@kolivas.net>
Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2003 16:24:00 +1100
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       Aggelos Economopoulos <aoiko@cc.ece.ntua.gr>
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] contest benchmark v0.60
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On Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 03:39:34PM +1100, Con Kolivas wrote:
> more I tried to add to it. Also there were subtle things happening in the 
> BASH version that made for much more variation in results than this version. 

I agree, it had begun to outgrow it's bash roots (e.g. i think it was
the ratio section with variables named a b c d e which drove me nuts
when I couldn't figure out which one was giving me a zero value).

> Possibly but clearly c has no major limitations once the hard part (the 
> wrapper for the other applications) has been done. 

I would disagree.  For example, playing tricks with strings,
pipes/redirects and files in C is a complete pain, compared with
perl/python.  Most of the things I changed with the orignal bash
version were in this subset, and it allowed me to customise it for
what we were doing quickly and easily. 

-i
ianw@gelato.unsw.edu.au
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