Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!caen!ox.com!emv From: goer@quads.uchicago.edu (Richard L. Goerwitz) Newsgroups: comp.archives Subject: [perl] Re: perl compared to other Unix tools Message-ID: <1990Dec12.235118.16653@ox.com> Date: 12 Dec 90 23:51:18 GMT References: <1990Dec8.020706.28417@midway.uchicago.edu> <1990Dec12.005636.17687@NCoast.ORG> <1990Dec12.064015.16936@midway.uchicago.edu> Sender: emv@ox.com (Edward Vielmetti) Reply-To: goer@quads.uchicago.edu (Richard L. Goerwitz) Followup-To: comp.lang.perl Organization: University of Chicago Lines: 18 Approved: emv@ox.com (Edward Vielmetti) X-Original-Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl Archive-name: languages/icon/icon/1990-12-12 Archive-directory: cs.arizona.edu:/icon/ [128.196.128.118] Original-posting-by: goer@quads.uchicago.edu (Richard L. Goerwitz) Original-subject: Re: perl compared to other Unix tools Reposted-by: emv@ox.com (Edward Vielmetti) In article <1990Dec12.005636.17687@NCoast.ORG> allbery@ncoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery KB8JRR) writes: >On the other hand, I want to learn Icon. Show me something along the lines of >the Perl manpage and I'll see what I can accomplish. Brief overviews of Icon can be ftp'd from a number of sites, the best being cs.arizona.edu. Cd to icon/ and grab "technical" report 90-1, 90-2, 90-6. Don't expect Icon to fill perl's shoes. It's not a good system administra- tion language. It occupies a different niche. -Richard