In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Anthony Esposito) writes: >How would you convince someone that programming in Perl is better than >using the UNIX Korn Shell? > >I need some 'intellectual ammo' to convince my colleagues that Perl is a >better, more powerful language, to do our scripting. Any suggestions?
Gee, the question sounds a bit like, "How would you convince someone that a Lamborghini Countach is better than a bicycle?" (Yes, I know there are times a bicycle is better... that's part of the point.) >Oracle Developer, Enterprise Business Intelligence There you go. Ask your colleagues to come up with a Korn shell script that serializes objects to a relational database. -- Peter Scott http://www.perldebugged.com/ *** NEW *** http//www.perlmedic.com/