Guys, I think the hostility in your discussion isn't helping anyone understand the other side's arguments any better.
As for my opinion: Windows is cool (I'm an MCP myself) but it has its down sides. Open source is great. Cross platform is wonderful, when it works. Personally I've been using perl (a bit) and PHP (a lot) on my Apache webserver running on Win2k Pro and although I did have some problems, they are Apache's fault and not PHP or Perl's. Personally, when I want to write text parsers I use this: http://vpascal.com. It's free and cross-platform, too bad it isn't GPL. And Pascal is a very simple language to play with strings in, and that specific compiler creates great executables. The reason I don't use PHP or Perl is that I don't really know them beyond playing with other people's code. Now that I'm done boring you all I ask you again to read the first line I wrote and think about it when you answer, because there's some sense in both "side"'s arguments. Have fun. :) Liron. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe xmail" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line "help" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
