Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!samsung!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!rpi.edu!rodney From: rodney@degas.ipl.rpi.edu (Rodney Peck II) Newsgroups: alt.sources.d Subject: Re: promoting Perl (was Re: uutraffic report (in perl)) Message-ID: Date: 4 Dec 89 05:31:14 GMT References: <4025@mhres.mh.nl> <1194@radius.UUCP> <3273@convex.UUCP> <5261@omepd.UUCP> <1126@cirrusl.UUCP> <1989Nov28.064349.1421@eda.com> <14961@bfmny0.UU.NET> <5294@omepd.UUCP> <12@lotex.UUCP> Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Image Processing Lab, Troy NY Lines: 19 In-Reply-To: chuckb@lotex.UUCP's message of 3 Dec 89 23:49:28 GMT >>>>> On 3 Dec 89 23:49:28 GMT, chuckb@lotex.UUCP (Chuck Bentley) said: Chuck> In article <5294@omepd.UUCP> merlyn@iwarp.intel.com (Randal Schwartz) writes: >In article <14961@bfmny0.UU.NET>, tneff@bfmny0 (Tom Neff) writes: >| In article <1989Nov28.064349.1421@eda.com> jim@eda.com (Jim Budler) writes: >| >I can't actually disagree with you, however, perl won me over with >| >ONE simple example: Chuck> . Chuck> . >combinations of "standard" UNIX data-redux tools *if* you can get Perl >up and running everywhere you need it, and can spend the time to learn Chuck> That's a big *if*. [...] I guess if you can't keep up with the Chuck> Hardware Race, you're just out of luck with the software coming Chuck> across the net these days. Yeah...sigh...I can't run perl on my TRS-80 model I either. -- Rodney Brought to you by Super Global Mega Corp .com