Speaking of Who Needs Perl? I can write some perl, but I find most of
my perl like processing needs are met by the earlier program, awk, which
is very powerful and much smaller than perl. I heard perl was faster
than awk initially, but I simply have not found this to be true for
most moderately complex scripts that I have written.
Awk, mawk, gawk, nawk -- or whatever is also more of a standalong tool,
without libraries and directories underneath, ported to various systems,
so you can just download the thing and use it.
In that sense is it ``platform independent'' like java: Most binaries
of awk work well, and all its scripts are just text files.
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Howard Schwartz
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