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From: merlyn@iwarp.intel.com (Randal L. Schwartz)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: While learning PERL... a suggestion
Message-ID: <1991Jan24.102037.20597@iwarp.intel.com>
Date: 24 Jan 91 10:20:37 GMT
References: <118879@uunet.UU.NET> <1991Jan21.092204.11944@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> <119430@uunet.UU.NET> <1991Jan22.080310.5582@robobar.co.uk> <1991Jan23.230154.27272@dbsm.oz.au>
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In-Reply-To: maf@thor (Martin Foord)

In article <1991Jan23.230154.27272@dbsm.oz.au>, maf@thor (Martin Foord) writes:
| Hmmm, cops is now being written in perl, any perl gurus out there ever thought
| about writing Cnews in perl ? Isn't this the sort of application that begs
| to be written in perl?

I nearly died laughing when I read this one.  Larry and I had lunch
with the father of Cnews (Henry Spencer) today.  He has said some less
than glorious things about Perl (he had a paper/talk at Usenix about
how to use awk(!) as a systems programming language).  This'd just
take the cake.

But you know, I bet it could be done pretty easily.

@x{0..24} = split(//,"rJeslthnco euhPk,aert ar "); print values %x;
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