On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 12:57:41PM -0800, Andrew Savige wrote: > Like Anthony Esposito in Nov 2003, I had a need recently to persuade > some folks to use Perl rather than Unix shell and remembered this > old thread. I've summarized my arguments at: > > http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=668481 > Feedback welcome. > Thanks, > /-\
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