Re: Perl versus UNIX Korn Shell

--On Wednesday, November 05, 2003 15:44:17 -0600 Jonathan Scott Duff 
<[email protected]> wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 04:19:44PM -0500, Esposito, Anthony wrote:
>> How would you convince someone that programming in Perl is better than
>> using the UNIX Korn Shell?
>>
>> I need some 'intellectual ammo' to convince my colleagues that Perl is a
>> better, more powerful language, to do our scripting.  Any suggestions?
>> :-)


Legitimate of control structures for one; not having to deal with
intermediate storage to capture the output of sed/awk/grep;
access to OO; the ability to run shell commands if necessary;
compiled language rather than interpreted.



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