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From: lerman@stpstn.UUCP (Ken Lerman)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
Subject: Re: What is 'expect'
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Date: 16 Nov 90 15:29:48 GMT
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In article <1990Nov15.054937.27996@midway.uchicago.edu> goer@quads.uchicago.edu (Richard L. Goerwitz) writes:
[...]
->I'm not defending the notion that no one should bother with Perl.  In
->fact, I hope people do.  If it does in fact stabilize, and get good
->documentation, and become widely installed, then I will most definitely
->want to use it in place of ugly conglomerations of sed, awk, and sh.
->
->-Richard (goer@sophist.uchicago.edu)

Shouldn't you write:.........................then I will most definitely
 wnat to use it in place of OTHER ugly conglomerations of sed, awk, and sh.

:-)

No, I am not disparaging perl, because I don't know enough about it.
But from the little I know about perl, I don't believe it solves what
I perceive to be the problem.  What we (or I) need is a simple,
elegant, extensible tool that is easy to learn and use.  Do people
seriously claim that perl is it?  If so, then perhaps it is time for
me to spend some time with my perl manual.


Ken