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From: wscott@ecn.purdue.edu (Wayne H Scott)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: What is perl?
Message-ID: <1990Oct27.000801.5853@ecn.purdue.edu>
Date: 27 Oct 90 00:08:01 GMT
Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network
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I get asked that question all the time.  The problem that I never seem to
be able to give an answer that does it justice.  After I tell them 
something like,... it is a scripting language that combines the power
and usefulness of sed, awk, shells, C, and several other utilitys... 
they act like it is a complicated mess that is not worth learning.

I thought if I had a short utility written in perl that is useful,
takes advantage of perl's features, and simply done,  I could
convince people.

Does anyone have such a script? (Or have a just demostrated that I can't
explain anything to anybody :)


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