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From: rkrebs@archie.dsd.es.com (Randall Krebs)
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Subject: Re: While learning PERL... a suggestion
Message-ID: <1991Feb5.180520.27660@dsd.es.com>
Date: 5 Feb 91 18:05:20 GMT
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In article <1991Jan24.174047.2897@NCoast.ORG> allbery@ncoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery KB8JRR) writes:
>As quoted from <1991Jan23.230154.27272@dbsm.oz.au> by maf@thor (Martin Foord):
>+---------------
>| about writing Cnews in perl ? Isn't this the sort of application that begs
>| to be written in perl?
>+---------------
>
>Henry Spencer would have a fit.  [ ;-) ]

Then this should give him a seizure.

I just completed massaging our C news system to gateway local mailing
lists to local newsgroups.  During the entire activity, I was thinking
how much more elegant this process would be IF ONLY it had all been
written in perl.

I was forced to modify the message injection utilities to strip lines
out of the message headers.  The inject/defhdrs.awk and inject/anne.jones
fairly cry out for a perl implementation.  I haven't reimplemented
these in perl yet, but I'm only about two bugs away from throwing
the whole sh implementation into the bit bucket.

(This isn't supposed to make any sense to anyone that doesn't maintain
C news on a daily basis.)

randall.
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