Re: Mailman in Perl (Re: the list is dead, long live the list)

[Redvers Davies]

> programs together, but I increasingly see it as a rather hackish peculiarity
> of unix as opposed to a design strength. And it seems more hackish with each
> passing year. This kind of stuff is groovy for sysadmin and local automation
> but I don't like it in widely distributed stuff. As languages go, sh sucks

Its not an original method.  I saw it used 5 years ago for the automatic 
compilation of ircii (Of course, it didn't work under AIX) ;)

Except it was then telnet some.host 54321 | sh