Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!uunet!convex!tchrist@convex.COM From: tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen) Newsgroups: alt.sources.d Subject: Re: QOTD server (Re: Help with socket 'select') Message-ID: <3383@convex.UUCP> Date: 22 Nov 89 22:17:25 GMT References: <13937@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU> Sender: news@convex.UUCP Reply-To: tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen) Organization: CONVEX Software Development, Richardson, TX Lines: 16 In article dupuy@cs.columbia.edu writes: >Why is it that everybody thinks perl is great for everything. I'm sure it has >its uses, but its only one tool - there are lots of others. Here's a simpler >version of the same thing that doesn't require perl, weird perl socket support, >or a separate daemon process: I think that the perl version was just posted as a demo. I tend to agree with the poster here that it's more succinctly written in sh, and also the point that perl's just another tool. Whatever let's me get the job done fastest and easiest is what I want to use. --tom Tom Christiansen {uunet,uiucdcs,sun}!convex!tchrist Convex Computer Corporation tchrist@convex.COM "EMACS belongs in : Editor too big!"