Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!jarthur!usc!sdd.hp.com!caen!uflorida!ukma!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!ncoast!allbery From: allbery@NCoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery KB8JRR) Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl Subject: Re: perl compared to other Unix tools (was: a pointer for a perl compare script) Message-ID: <1990Dec12.005636.17687@NCoast.ORG> Date: 12 Dec 90 00:56:36 GMT References: <275E7B47.2EB9@tct.uucp> <1990Dec8.020706.28417@midway.uchicago.edu> Reply-To: allbery@ncoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery KB8JRR) Followup-To: comp.lang.perl Organization: North Coast Public Access *NIX, Cleveland, OH Lines: 26 As quoted from <1990Dec8.020706.28417@midway.uchicago.edu> by goer@ellis.uchicago.edu (Richard L. Goerwitz): +--------------- | I fully expect that once perl stabilizes, and the documentation begins | to become readily accessible, it will become widely installed, and will +--------------- I daresay Perl is more widely installed than Icon. And more widely installed than nawk. As far as documentation goes --- the Perl manpage was enough to get me going in Perl. I have yet to find Grswold&Griswold locally, and I'm not in a position to order it from Prentice-Hall; the Icon interpreter sits, compiled but unused, on my machine waiting for me to learn enough Icon to try to use it. Additionally, the number of Perl examples in the distribution is more than enough to get one started even without the manual. (I say "started", not "fully knowedgeable"... but I can't even get started from the Icon examples.) 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. ++Brandon -- Me: Brandon S. Allbery VHF/UHF: KB8JRR on 220, 2m, 440 Internet: allbery@NCoast.ORG Packet: KB8JRR @ WA8BXN America OnLine: KB8JRR AMPR: KB8JRR.AmPR.ORG [44.70.4.88] uunet!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!ncoast!allbery Delphi: ALLBERY