Some financial companies still use korn for oracle scriptings and developers should be more on adept on korn than perl.
On 3/6/08, andrelst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Cross OS/OS Version Programming. > > Have past and current projects where the script will run on a variety > of Linux to various flavors of *NIX. > > Additionally, the script should run all versions of Linux RHEL 3+ and > Solaris 2.5.1+ for example. > > Definitely, there is no perl on some of them, and you even mention > Oracle bundling it because of this. I chose ksh/awk/sed to bind and > rule them all. > > Besides, it does not hurt to learn awk/sed. The generic ideas like > regexp is applicable to other programming languages including perl > anyways. > > And yes, ancient UNIX running for more than a decade still exists. > One financial company still runs Solaris 2.5.1 on a single E4.5K. No > one dares touch it when it generates 30% of the company income. > > -- > regards, > Andre | http://www.varon.ca > > On 3/6/08, Orlando Andico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I guess if you took a "stock" AIX installation (or maybe HP-UX?) it > > would have no Perl. > > > > It boggles the mind that such a beast (a Perl-less Unix?!?!?!) would > > still exist though. > > > > Vendors (like Oracle) get around this problem by bundling Perl with > > their products, just in case there's no system Perl. > _________________________________________________ > Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List > [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) > Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists > Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph > -- Sent from Gmail for mobile | mobile.google.com ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ sometimes truth is stranger than fiction -bad religion- http://www.bloglines.com/blog/mailist ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ I don't think the computers will take over the world. I have a bucket of water. _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
