On Fri, Apr 24, 2015 at 11:12 AM, John R Pierce <pierce at hogranch.com> wrote: > On 4/24/2015 3:07 AM, E.B. wrote: >> >> I'm sure most people here know about Dash in Debian. Have there >> been discussions about providing a more efficient shell in Centos >> for use with heavily invoked non-interactive scripts? > > > > perl or python are much better choices for complex scripts that need decent > performance > Yes, the shell is great at launching other programs, redirecting i/o, creating pipes, expanding wildcard filenames and generally automating things with exactly the same syntax you'd use manually on the command line. But not so much at doing real computation itself. Even with perl if you have to do serious work you'll probably want modules that link in compiled C libraries. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com