Hello Maurice.

03 Apr 04 17:22, you wrote to me:

 MK> Hey Mike!

 MK> Apr 03 18:55 04, Mike Miller wrote to Bo Simonsen:

 MM>>   I was ducking and running from any Perl fanatics out there,
 MM>> they

 MK> As well you should.  ;-)

 MM>>  Perl in general, take a look at it once, and then compare it to
 MM>> any other scripting languages.

 MK> It depends on what you use it for.  For most scripting purposes I find
 MK> bash to be the scripting language of choice but for databasing, or the
 MK> like, then perl.  For me it depends on the end result.  I don't do
 MK> much scripting for apache or any other httpd so php isn't that much of
 MK> an asset overall.  I'd imagine if I did then I'd be looking for
 MK> something suitable to that and then php might be more attractive.  For
 MK> the little I do, such as cgi scripts, then perl is up to the task and
 MK> I happen to have it close at hand.  Makes perfect sense to me.

 Perl is good for some things, but now that PHP has a CLI interperter, I
tend to use that more often :)

Otherwise, bash works quite well for me.



Mike

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