On Saturday, December 30th, 1995 - Evan Langlois wrote:
 
EL>         from C, its fully embeddable, has a nice debugger, and you
 
Fully embeddable into C?
 
EL>         can do neat things like keep the manual page in the same
EL>         file with the PERL code - you execute the file and it runs
EL>         code - read it with man, and you see only the nicely formatted
EL>         manual page.  Keeps docs together with code!
 
That's rather cool.  How does it do that?  Does PERL have its own shell
environment that knows how to interpret the file?
 
EL>  it running under SCO (yuck!  I hate SCO) at work, and I have PERL 4
 
What is SCO?
 
EL> that way.  Considering the amount of national support its been 
EL> getting (professional perl training seminars and use in-house by IBM 
EL> and other top companies), I think PERL may be the 'BASIC' of the 90s.
 
That's interesting.  Sounds like a lot of people are flocking to it.
I had never even heard of it before you brought it up.
 
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