On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 06:06:06PM -0800, Stewart Stremler wrote: > begin quoting Lan Barnes as of Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 11:16:35AM -0800: > [snip] > > Do you know perl? Because all you would be doing is learning an older, > > more obscure way of doing what you already can with perl. > > It's really funny when something else can be considered "more obscure" > than perl by an otherwise intelligent and rational person...
That is an opinion held by an ever shrinking minority. > > > This isn't meant as flame bait, but it might as well be. Oh, hell ... > > might as well go all the way. > > > > Forget sed and awk. They're obsolete. Do it in perl. > > Well... sed subsitution patterns tend to be pretty close to vi. > > I need to dig out my Tcl book. I've been writing stuff in Perl that > would probably be more readable as Tcl... > > > *That's* flame bait! > > Heh. > > So long as it's Perl 4, and not one of the bloated and corpulent descendents! > I thought the break was between 5 and 6 -- Lan Barnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Guy, SCM Specialist 858-354-0616 -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
