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From: tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen)
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Subject: Re: ftw.pl (was Re: perl find)
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Date: 27 Feb 91 05:51:26 GMT
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From the keyboard of lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall):
:Why not just translate it to a Perl subroutine and eval that?  Recursion,
:(), &&, || and ! available for free.

Laziness strikes again. :-)

--tom
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"UNIX was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because
 that would also stop you from doing clever things." -- Doug Gwyn

 Tom Christiansen                tchrist@convex.com      convex!tchrist