Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 00:47:38 -0600 From: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> To: obrien@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: was: Bringing LPRng into FreeBSD? Message-ID: <39584E0A.2A4C2CB8@softweyr.com> References: <20000626195938.A78956@hub.freebsd.org> <XFMail.000627123702.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <20000626205705.A84551@dragon.nuxi.com>
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David O'Brien wrote:
>
> On Tue, Jun 27, 2000 at 12:37:02PM +0930, Daniel O'Connor wrote:
> > Except that Perl fullfilled a function not present in the system
>
> Somebody please remind me again what perl does for us that we could not
> have done in sh/awk/sed/tr etc.
Allow screaming butt-ugly code to creep all over the system? Nah, you
*can* do that with sh/awk/sed/tr, too.
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