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From: rahard@eeserv.ee.umanitoba.ca (Budi Rahardjo)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: What is perl?
Keywords: perl C
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Date: 31 Oct 90 13:23:19 GMT
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How about : Perl is a poor-man "C compiler" ...

(I introduced perl to some MS-DOS users, and they were excited
since a good C compiler costs $$, not good for students with limitted $$)

-- budi
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Budi Rahardjo                 <rahardj@ccu.umanitoba.ca>
<rahard@ee.umanitoba.ca>   <rahard@budi.ee.umanitoba.ca>
Electrical Engineering - University of Manitoba - Canada