> And I really wasn't dissing Mercator.  But walk into a book store
> sometime:  you'll see Perl this and Perl that.  Perl is ubiquitous -
> maybe even more so than XSD and XSLT. But not one book about Mercator
> and type trees.  I'm supposing that with all other things being equal,
> I'd rather have  Perl code dumped on my desk than some random vendor's
> map.

Mercator (Datastage TX) is what it is: a very powerful, very flexible, very 
feature-filled.... very expensive, very
difficult-to-master, very-unusable-except-for-programmer-types tool.

perl is what it is: inexpensive, feature-filled, powerful.... (IMNSHO) overly 
geeky.

Perl is ubiquitious. Mercator ain't.

Choose your poison.

MCM








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