pvo3366@sapphire.OCE.ORST.EDU (Paul O'Neill) (11/22/89)
In article <14946@bfmny0.UU.NET> tneff@bfmny0.UU.NET (Tom Neff) writes: > >......................................... Perl needs a >softer sell. It's too early for it to become a religious issue. > Religion, smidgen! What's failed to surface in this discussion is that perl makes programming fun again! And the damn things work w/o hours of debugging. Hmmmm... maybe that's why it's fun. I think that's why you're seeing a lot of perl script sources these days. People are having fun writing this stuff. They wouldn't even bother starting in Bourn shell, much less debug and distribute. Try the QOTD server in alt.sources. My hat's off to whoever does this one in sh. Paul O'Neill pvo@oce.orst.edu Coastal Imaging Lab OSU--Oceanography Corvallis, OR 97331 503-754-3251