However, as has been pointed out regarding MS Word, most users only use a very tiny subset of its functionality. The problem is that the users are using different subsets. I've done huge amounts of HTML parsing and can't recall having used GDBM_File.
It all comes to *different* subsets .... I wrote a lot of Perl for Unix, VMS and Windows system management, text files processing and connectivity to databases (Oracle and LDAP). I never used an HTML parser and only used LWP once. So for me a stripped down version of Perl with reasonable I/O capabilities (print, open, close, <FH>) would be just enough and i can settle for an easy-to-install connectivity bundle. Then again, i only represent myself. -- Amir Elisha Aharoni, http://aharoni.blogspot.com/ "We're living in pieces, I want to live in peace." - Thurston Moore ______________________________________________________ Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
