Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!convex!tchrist@convex.COM
From: tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen)
Newsgroups: alt.sources.d
Subject: Re: Trailblazer configuration awk script
Summary: perl equates to spam?
Message-ID: <3278@convex.UUCP>
Date: 21 Nov 89 12:47:43 GMT
References: <4268@helios.ee.lbl.gov>
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Reply-To: tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen)
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In article <4268@helios.ee.lbl.gov> leres@helios.ee.lbl.gov 
(Craig Leres) writes:

>If you add any features, I'd appreciate getting a copy (but if you
>convert it to perl, please do not send it to me because I DON'T LIKE
>SPAM!)

Excuse me?  What does Spam(tm) have to do with perl?
Whence your revulsion?

And there's no work to to be done to convert a mere
awk script to perl: that's what the automatic awk-to-perl
translator, a2p, is for.

--tom

    Tom Christiansen                       {uunet,uiucdcs,sun}!convex!tchrist 
    Convex Computer Corporation                            tchrist@convex.COM
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