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From: tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen)
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Subject: Re: using awk with records that have over 100 fields
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Date: 2 Jan 91 21:04:24 GMT
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From the keyboard of skwu@spot.Colorado.EDU (WU SHI-KUEI):
:Has it ever struck you that perl scripts and JCL code are painfully similar
:precisely because perl is a Swiss army chainsaw?

Nope, not in the least.  Perl highly resembles its predecessors: awk, C,
and sed.  Pain is a matter of one's own making and perception.  You should
compare JCL with its UNIX equivalent, the original shell; you know, the
one where glob was a separate command.  Perl is far more analogous to REXX
on modern VM/CMS systems.

Only history will tell for sure, of course.

--tom
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Tom Christiansen		tchrist@convex.com	convex!tchrist
"With a kernel dive, all things are possible, but it sure makes it hard
 to look at yourself in the mirror the next morning."  -me