* Peter da Silva <pe...@taronga.com> [2007-10-16 23:30]: > On 16-Oct-2007, at 15:33, Michael G Schwern wrote: >> Just when you thought you're done hating you realize one of >> the reasons Perl was written is so you wouldn't have to write >> shell code, much less portable shell code. > > I find portable shell code easier to write and read than Perl.
Ah? Does your shell code run on VMS, Win32, Symbian, OS/390 and RiscOS in addition to *every* Unix and clone under the S^Hsun? Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/>
