Re: Query: Perl & Testing

2006-08-26 Thread Adrian Howard
On 25 Aug 2006, at 16:06, brian d foy wrote: [snip] People use Perl to test. No need to say what they test. Plenty of people use Perl to test programs written in any other language, or even to test hardware, networks, and other non-programmy sorts of things. I thought: Since perl's testing

Re: Query: Perl & Testing

2006-08-25 Thread brian d foy
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Adrian Howard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 25 Aug 2006, at 09:04, Vishal Mehta wrote: > [snip] > > 1) What is the role of Perl in testing? > [snip] > > It's a programming language. > > People use perl to test programs written in perl. People use Perl to

Re: Query: Perl & Testing

2006-08-25 Thread A. Pagaltzis
* Adrian Howard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-08-25 12:00]: > See and > and > for some more > info. Also . Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzi

Re: Query: Perl & Testing

2006-08-25 Thread Adrian Howard
On 25 Aug 2006, at 09:04, Vishal Mehta wrote: [snip] 1) What is the role of Perl in testing? [snip] It's a programming language. People use perl to test programs written in perl. Since perl's testing framework is platform agnostic people sometimes use perl to test programs written in