Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!decwrl!eda.com!jim
From: jim@eda.com (Jim Budler)
Newsgroups: alt.sources.d
Subject: Re: Perl (of course!)
Message-ID: <1989Nov30.063941.15599@eda.com>
Date: 30 Nov 89 06:39:41 GMT
References: <4025@mhres.mh.nl> <5262@omepd.UUCP> <62183@aerospace.AERO.ORG>
Organization: EDA Systems,Inc. Santa Clara, CA
Lines: 31

faigin@aerospace.aero.org (Daniel P. Faigin) writes:


} In article <5262@omepd.UUCP> merlyn@iwarp.intel.com (Randal Schwartz) writes:
} >This is *exactly* the audience for Perl.  When an "easy" combination of awk
} >and sed doesn't do it, but writing a C program (under multiple architectures)
} >is overkill, Perl seems to fit in quite nicely.  It's also a lot more
} >flexible at launching and managing multiple processes than the same thing in
} >awk or sh.  It also has this little report generator built in that I've made
} >minimal use of, but was the original intent of Perl.

} It's time to tell a story. Not that many people know why perl even exists (or
} that it was originally to be called gloria, in honor of Larry's wife). 

[... great story deleted...]

} Daniel (one of the three people there at perl's birth)

} Email:faigin@aerospace.aero.org (or) Faigin@dockmaster.ncsc.mil

Hey, this story would be great in the book! You know the book the
person you followed up to is writing. (Or did I get my people crossed
up?)

By the way, was a title ever chosen?

jim
-- 
Jim Budler	jim@eda.com    ...!{decwrl,uunet}!eda!jim
compuserve: 72415,1200     applelink: D4619
voice: +1 408 986-9585     fax: +1 408 748-1032


Brought to you by Super Global Mega Corp .com