Martin Baehr wrote:
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agreed.
however, it is still good for stuff that is to complex for shells.
perl at least was designed to replace shell scripts and it works well in
that area. and a perl script is not harder to read than a shell script
that does the same thing.
but also perl is being overused for things it was not designed to do.
perl = Practical Extraction and Report Language
It was designed, not as you suggest, but to offer an alternative to shellescripting when formatting documents, and to a lesser extent when processing data.
It was *not* designed to generically replace shellscripts except in this specific area.
Steve
