Shmuel, I love perl and even ruby, but I am in a batch z/os environment writing for customers, well that's a horse of a different color as they say..
Scott ford www.identityforge.com On Aug 28, 2012, at 6:43 PM, "Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)" <shmuel+...@patriot.net> wrote: > In <584b9998-992d-4fab-9b21-268ad144d...@yahoo.com>, on 08/28/2012 > at 11:56 AM, Scott Ford <scott_j_f...@yahoo.com> said: > >> Parsing for me is not an issue. I understand it's not 'NIX' like, >> but if you understand the language you craft your programs or >> scripts to perform what you want. > > When I have a screwdriver in my tool box I'm not going to make do with > a hammer when I need to put in a screw. I use REXX when it's more > suitable and I use Perl when *it's* more suitable, and parsing is one > of the factors in evaluating that choice. > > -- > Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT > Atid/2 <http://patriot.net/~shmuel> > We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress. > (S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003) > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN