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From: aks%anywhere@hub.ucsb.edu (Alan Stebbens)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Where's calendar.pl
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Date: 21 Mar 91 21:24:48 GMT
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Hmmm... I've just looked over the recently announced Python language.
It looks very clean and simple, yet powerful.  I like it.  Once I looked
at the Python libraries, I saw how a four line program will do a yearly
calendar for me:

 #!/bin/python
 import time
 import calendar
 calendar.prcal((calendar.localtime(time.time()))[0])

Did you ever notice how a bit Perl program has a lot of dollar-signs in
it?  Kind of visually noisy, huh?

One thing, why hasn't someone done a "calendar.pl" or "time.pl" for
Perl?

 #!/bin/perl
 require 'calendar.pl';
 &calendar((localtime(time))[5]);

By the way, I like and use Perl, too!  (Just throwing some fat on the
fire)

Alan