On 20 Mar 02 at 09:39:35AM, Hasanuddin Tamir wrote:

> It's certainly fun for me to use perl as an aid tool to support my job
> using perl as primary tool: programming.

It seems to me that the programmer is the modern-day equivalent of the
blacksmith of old: one of the few craftsmen who could make all his/her
own tools (if he/she had the time)...

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I personally prefer writing tools that do my job for me than actually
doing the job itself. I remember reading (in a book on PCCCTS?) a
comment to the effect of:

  "Why spend an hour doing a task, when you could spend the next five
   years of your life automating it?"

My sentiments exactly.


Ian

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