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From: jantypas@ucrmath.UUCP (John Antypas)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: Post the perl patches for the 286
Message-ID: <490@ucrmath.UUCP>
Date: 27 Oct 88 18:50:00 GMT
References: <1502@jclyde.cactus.org>
Reply-To: jantypas@ucrmath.UUCP (John Antypas)
Organization: University of California, Riverside
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In article <1502@jclyde.cactus.org> john@jclyde.cactus.org (John B. Meaders Jr.) writes:
>286 machines can run perl. :-)
>-- 
>John B. Meaders, Jr.  1114 Camino La Costa #3083, Austin, TX  78752
 
I agree!  Perl is a nice replacement for awk, and on many 286 machines,
awk is compiled in the small model making it all but useless, but perl
often works no better if it even compiles.  PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE!!!