On Fri, 12 Aug 2005 12:02:10 -0600, "Stuart Jansen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Fri, 2005-08-12 at 11:25 -0600, Josh Coates wrote: > > so, let's get back to work because we're lowering the gdp by spending time > > on this. (besides, everyone already knows perl is a crappy language for > > large, complex software systems, but it's a great scripting language for > > text processing and sysadmin related tasks.) > > Unless those large, complex systems involve a lot of text processing. > And (strangely enough) alot of data out there seems to be text.
Uh... I think the ratio of "data stored in flat files" to "data stored in relational or object databases" among non-toy projects is pretty low. -Jonathan .-----------------------------------. | This has been a P.L.U.G. mailing. | | Don't Fear the Penguin. | | IRC: #utah at irc.freenode.net | `-----------------------------------'
