Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!apple!oliveb!mipos3!omepd!merlyn From: merlyn@iwarp.intel.com (Randal Schwartz) Newsgroups: alt.sources.d Subject: promoting Perl (was Re: uutraffic report (in perl)) Message-ID: <5261@omepd.UUCP> Date: 27 Nov 89 01:34:21 GMT References: <4025@mhres.mh.nl> <1194@radius.UUCP> <3273@convex.UUCP> Sender: news@omepd.UUCP Reply-To: merlyn@iwarp.intel.com (Randal Schwartz) Organization: Stonehenge; netaccess via Intel, Hillsboro, Oregon, USA Lines: 57 In-reply-to: tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen) In article <3273@convex.UUCP>, tchrist@convex (Tom Christiansen) writes: | Please don't take this wrong, but why DON'T you have perl? [...] | Larry Wall, is the same man who brought you rn, metaconfig, and patch. And don't forget warp! :-) | He privately supports perl better than any industrial software house | that I've ever seen. Hear hear! | Perl is light years ahead of awk, sed, and sh as far as tools go. I | very strongly believe that it will be around for many years to come, | and that it will be extremely widely used throughout the world. I hope so too, although I'm a bit biased, since I will be making (minimal :-) royalties off the forthcoming book on Perl from Nutshell Handbooks (written by "Larry Wall, as told to Randal L. Schwartz" :-). | You | can see how much source has come across the net just lately that's been | written in perl. Hmm... anything to do with me answering every request in comp.unix.questions with a Perl one-liner? :-) | I have not written any awk or sed scripts since I got | perl, and certainly none of those horrendous sh scripts full of | multiple calls to sed and awk and tr and sort and cut and paste and | expand and grep and all their brethren. I've saved myself quite a | bit of development time by writing fewer C programs as well. Exactly! | Furthermore, perl programs are portable without modification or | recompilation to a wealth of architectures. I only have around 5 | architectures now to send common programs too, but in my last job there | were no fewer than a dozen. It's really nice to just close your eyes | and rdist your program and know it will run. As a sysadmin (in one of my *many* incarnations) working with four very different architectures, I fully agree. Many of the tasks that I am doing easily now would have been horrible otherwise. | Do yourself a favor: get perl. And buy the book! :-) Just another Perl hacker, with a flair for grandstanding, -- /== Randal L. Schwartz, Stonehenge Consulting Services (503)777-0095 ====\ | on contract to Intel's iWarp project, Hillsboro, Oregon, USA, Sol III | | merlyn@iwarp.intel.com ...!uunet!iwarp.intel.com!merlyn | \== Cute Quote: "Welcome to Oregon... Home of the California Raisins!" ==/ Brought to you by Super Global Mega Corp .com