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From: kent@ssbell.UUCP (Kent Landfield)
Newsgroups: news.groups
Subject: Re: Call for Discussion: comp.lang.perl
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Date: 12 Oct 89 04:24:35 GMT
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fischer@iesd.auc.dk (Lars P. Fischer) writes in article
	<FISCHER.89Oct7203613@dirac.iesd.auc.dk> 

| I agree. Perl is a very good language for prototyping applications and
| for creating sys-admin application. Many smaller applications can be
| done very easily in Perl, and not having binaries avoids having to
| recompile for each kind of CPU.
| 
| A Perl newsgroup would be a good forum for exchange of ideas on how to
| use Perl, applications and utilities written in Perl, and also making
| more programmers aware of the advantages of using Perl.

Ahhhh... I can see it already... Comp.sources.perl
			
			-Kent+