Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!oz.cis.ohio-state.edu!jgreely From: jgreely@oz.cis.ohio-state.edu (J Greely) Newsgroups: alt.sources.d Subject: Re: uutraffic report (in perl) Message-ID: Date: 22 Nov 89 00:08:44 GMT References: <4025@mhres.mh.nl> <1194@radius.UUCP> <3273@convex.UUCP> <14946@bfmny0.UU.NET> Sender: news@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu Reply-To: J Greely Organization: Ohio State University Computer and Information Science Lines: 21 In-reply-to: tneff@bfmny0.UU.NET's message of 21 Nov 89 23:14:26 GMT In article <14946@bfmny0.UU.NET> tneff@bfmny0.UU.NET (Tom Neff) writes: >I do think it's annoying at this stage to hear "here's the perl script, >that's all anyone with a functioning brain pan needs, wise up you >contemptible fools!" types of sentiments in postings. Perl needs a >softer sell. It's too early for it to become a religious issue. (Two years after its first net release is too early?) A lot of the current publicity is probably due to the fact that comp.lang.perl is being voted on now (when *does* that vote end?). I don't mind, since lots of Perl hackers are coming out of the closet, both on the net and the Perl mailing list, resulting in the appearance of a fair number of useful Perl scripts that might otherwise never have seen the light of day. And yes, it *is* a religious issue. It cuts to the heart of the Unix philosophy, performs a triple bypass, and gets some useful work done while sh is still in the first set of backquotes. Ever seen a disk usage accounting system written in sh? It's not a pretty sight. -=- J Greely (jgreely@cis.ohio-state.edu; osu-cis!jgreely)