On Dec 31, 2007, at 10:20 AM, Larson, Timothy E. wrote:
10 years ago I often heard the advice to use shell rather than Perl because plenty of machines were still deployed that did not have itinstalled. That is becoming less true as time goes on and Perl becomesmore of a standard tool.
Becomes? Wow. If you had sent that email in 1997 I would have agreed. We seem to have different takes on where Perl is on the alpha - production - obsolete bell curve. :)
j