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Date:      12 Jun 2001 10:49:12 -0400
From:      Nat Lanza <magus@cs.cmu.edu>
To:        clefevre@redirect.to
Cc:        Matthew Seaman <matthew.seaman@tornadogroup.com>, Valentin Nechayev <netch@iv.nn.kiev.ua>, Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@plasm.demon.co.uk>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Perl module for periodic scripts
Message-ID:  <kh3d9521p3.fsf@dzerzhinsky.rem.cs.cmu.edu>
In-Reply-To: <200106121100.f5CB0uo70876@gits.dyndns.org>
References:  <200106121100.f5CB0uo70876@gits.dyndns.org>

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Cyrille Lefevre <clefevre@redirect.to> writes:

> not everybody known perl, while everybody known sh/sed/awk.

I don't think this is true anymore. I certainly know many people who
are familiar with perl but only vaguely familiar with sh and ignorant
of sed/awk.

I honestly don't understand the anti-perl reactions some people
have. Maybe it's not your favorite language, but it's not going
away. It's time to accept that.


--nat

-- 
nat lanza ----------------------------------- there are no whole truths;
magus@cs.cmu.edu ---------------------------- all truths are half-truths
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~magus/ ---------------  -- alfred north whitehead

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