[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Juerd) writes:
> I think it has to go because `pwd`, `hostname`, `wget -O - $url`
> should not be easier than the purer Perl equivalents and because
> ``'s interpolation does more harm than good.
I have to disagree with you here. The Perl way is not always the Perl
way -- the beauty of Perl is that it makes it as easy as possible to
take advantage of existing tools. Sometimes this is best done with a
foreign interface like XS, but sometimes it's adequate and easier to
simply shell out and collect the output. I don't see "purity" as a
good motive here; in fact, rigid purity makes languages like Java and
Smalltalk somewhere between frustrating and useless.
As for it doing more harm than good, do you mean that `` is a security
threat? I find that there are still plenty of contexts in which `` is
nice and security is irrelevant.
Of course, I'd be fine with the slightly longer "qx{}"...
/s
