Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!pdn!tscs!tct!chip From: chip@tct.uucp (Chip Salzenberg) Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl Subject: Re: Needed: a pointer for a perl compare script (long, sorry..) Message-ID: <275E7B47.2EB9@tct.uucp> Date: 6 Dec 90 17:09:27 GMT References: <12020@milton.u.washington.edu> <1990Dec04.230436.8432@chinet.chi.il.us> <1990Dec5.060300.21410@midway.uchicago.edu> Organization: Teltronics/TCT, Sarasota, FL Lines: 13 According to goer@quads.uchicago.edu (Richard L. Goerwitz): >Perl is not the only language around that is optimized for file, >string, and symbol processing, which has associative arrays, and handles >sorting and printing elegantly. If you can't think of any examples off- >hand then mail me, and I'll be glad to provide you with a few. Come now, Richard. If you criticize in public, you must put up your facts in public. Name these other languages. Oh yes, and please include availability and cost information. -- Chip Salzenberg at Teltronics/TCT , "I'm really sorry I feel this need to insult some people..." -- John F. Haugh II (He thinks HE'S sorry?) Brought to you by Super Global Mega Corp .com