Re: Perl versus UNIX Korn Shell

In article <22A94E05300FCA4B97334B5DFD3EB9D5053DE2C8@ILCHICVEXC006.mail.inthosts.net>,
 [email protected] (Anthony Esposito) writes:
>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?

Gee, the question sounds a bit like, "How would you convince someone that
a Lamborghini Countach is better than a bicycle?"  (Yes, I know there are
times a bicycle is better... that's part of the point.)

>Oracle Developer, Enterprise Business Intelligence

There you go.  Ask your colleagues to come up with a Korn shell script
that serializes objects to a relational database.  

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Peter Scott
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