Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!decwrl!uunet!rbj From: rbj@uunet.UU.NET (Root Boy Jim) Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl Subject: Re: While learning PERL... a suggestion Message-ID: <119778@uunet.UU.NET> Date: 25 Jan 91 00:05:27 GMT References: <119430@uunet.UU.NET> <1991Jan22.080310.5582@robobar.co.uk> <1991Jan23.230154.27272@dbsm.oz.au> Organization: UUNET Communications Services, Falls Church, VA Lines: 15 In article <1991Jan23.230154.27272@dbsm.oz.au> maf@thor (Martin Foord) writes: >Any perl gurus out there ever thought about writing Cnews in perl ? One of the original reasons for writing Cnews in the first place was speed. Henry and Jeff spent quite a bit of effort reducing the number of system calls. Read the paper "News Need Not be Slow" in the distribution. >Isn't this the sort of application that begs to be written in perl? No, it begs to be PROTOTYPED in perl. Originally, news was a bunch of shell scripts. -- Root Boy Jim Cottrell Close the gap of the dark year in between