promoting Perl (was Re: uutraffic report (in perl))

[Rodney Peck II]

>>>>> On 3 Dec 89 23:49:28 GMT, chuckb at lotex.UUCP (Chuck Bentley) said:

Chuck> In article <5294 at omepd.UUCP> merlyn at iwarp.intel.com (Randal Schwartz) writes:
>In article <14961 at bfmny0.UU.NET>, tneff at bfmny0 (Tom Neff) writes:
>| In article <1989Nov28.064349.1421 at eda.com> jim at eda.com (Jim Budler) writes:
>| >I can't actually disagree with you, however, perl won me over with
>| >ONE simple example:
Chuck> .
Chuck> .
>combinations of "standard" UNIX data-redux tools *if* you can get Perl
>up and running everywhere you need it, and can spend the time to learn

Chuck> That's a big *if*. [...] I guess if you can't keep up with the
Chuck> Hardware Race, you're just out of luck with the software coming
Chuck> across the net these days.

Yeah...sigh...I can't run perl on my TRS-80 model I either.
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Rodney