On Thu, Jun 12, 2003 at 11:08:56AM -0500, John Hasler wrote: > Matthew Weier O'Phinney writes: > > One aspect of [Perl] I particularly like is that it is also very > > portable: I don't have to worry about which shell is available on which > > system... > > On Unix and Linux conservatively-written POSIX sh scripts are more portable > than Perl.
And something of a speciality art form. =) -- Jamin W. Collins This is the typical unix way of doing things: you string together lots of very specific tools to accomplish larger tasks. -- Vineet Kumar -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]