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From: goer@quads.uchicago.edu (Richard L. Goerwitz)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: perl compared to other Unix tools
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Date: 12 Dec 90 06:40:15 GMT
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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