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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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