From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jun 12 7:50:35 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from dzerzhinsky.rem.cs.cmu.edu (DZERZHINSKY.REM.CS.CMU.EDU [128.2.80.192]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 08D2137B407 for ; Tue, 12 Jun 2001 07:50:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nlanza@dzerzhinsky.rem.cs.cmu.edu) Received: (from nlanza@localhost) by dzerzhinsky.rem.cs.cmu.edu (8.11.3/8.11.3) id f5CEnDb48573; Tue, 12 Jun 2001 10:49:13 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from nlanza) To: clefevre@redirect.to Cc: Matthew Seaman , Valentin Nechayev , Matthew Seaman , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Perl module for periodic scripts References: <200106121100.f5CB0uo70876@gits.dyndns.org> From: Nat Lanza Date: 12 Jun 2001 10:49:12 -0400 In-Reply-To: <200106121100.f5CB0uo70876@gits.dyndns.org> Message-ID: Lines: 19 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.1 (Cuyahoga Valley) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Cyrille Lefevre 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message