From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Nov 16 04:53:45 1996 Return-Path: owner-chat Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id EAA28474 for chat-outgoing; Sat, 16 Nov 1996 04:53:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id EAA28466 for ; Sat, 16 Nov 1996 04:53:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id NAA12974; Sat, 16 Nov 1996 13:52:48 +0100 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id NAA04383; Sat, 16 Nov 1996 13:52:48 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.2/8.6.9) id NAA07216; Sat, 16 Nov 1996 13:29:06 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199611161229.NAA07216@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Who needs Perl? (Was: cvs commit: src/share/doc/handbook ...) To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Date: Sat, 16 Nov 1996 13:29:06 +0100 (MET) Cc: obrien@NUXI.com, jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <5446.847751056@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at "Nov 11, 96 02:24:16 pm" X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL17 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-chat@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk (Moved to -chat, for obvious reasons. ;) As Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > I'm guessing sed, I thought Jordan had a disdain dislike for perl. :-) > > sed, definitely. I mean, who needs perl when you've already got > sed, sh and awk? :-) Those who are too impatient to wait until sh, sed, and awk are ready with fork()ing and execve()ing... :-) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)