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From: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (Wm E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
Subject: Re: What is 'expect'
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Date: 25 Nov 90 18:08:53 GMT
References: <108721@convex.convex.com> <1990Nov15.054937.27996@midway.uchicago.edu> <5808@stpstn.UUCP> <109191@convex.convex.com>
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In article <109191@convex.convex.com> tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen) writes:

| Perl meets most of your criteria; the one it doesn't really satisfy
| is that of elegance.  Quoting from the 3rd sentence of its man page:
| 
|     The language is intended to practical (easy-to-use, efficient,
|     complete) rather than beautiful (tiny, elegant, minimal).

  I personally find that "complex" and "easy to use" are somewhat at
variance. If you don't use perl frequently you are unlikely to use it at
all. It's just too large a language to use three times a year and
remember any significant portion.

  Perl is the PL/I of implementation languages, and what we need is
"subset G."
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