On Sun, Sep 09, 2007 at 08:44:07PM +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote:
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> Gary Kline wrote:
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> >     Do any of you gents know if there is a converter that turns
> >     Bo[u]rne (:-)) shell into perl?  Years ago there was
> >     commericalware (i Think) that took /bin/sh to C.  Maybe Ii'm
> >     mis-remembering.  I've googled aroud and find zip, so maybe I
> >     was in some kind of coma-zone.  
> 
> I believe that just such a converter is well known in the perl
> community.  His name is Tom Christiansen IIRC.
> 

        The name is familiar, of course... .   Guess I'll re-google:)
        (FWIW, I fund a csh2sh.pl script that is years old.  Not sure 
        of the copyright, but it has to be online orin some archive.)   
        I've only written several score of perl scripts; < 150.
        /bin/shell into the low thousands.

        Good show, Matthew!

        gary


>       Cheers,
> 
>       Matthew
> 
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