QOTD server (Re: Help with socket 'select')

[Tom Christiansen]

In article <DUPUY.89Nov22120002 at hudson.cs.columbia.edu> dupuy at cs.columbia.edu writes:
>Why is it that everybody thinks perl is great for everything.  I'm sure it has
>its uses, but its only one tool - there are lots of others.  Here's a simpler
>version of the same thing that doesn't require perl, weird perl socket support,
>or a separate daemon process:

I think that the perl version was just posted as a demo.  I tend to agree
with the poster here that it's more succinctly written in sh, and also
the point that perl's just another tool.  Whatever let's me get the job done
fastest and easiest is what I want to use.  

--tom

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