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[David C Lawrence]

In <932 at lego.cs.utexas.edu> steveb at cs.utexas.edu (Steve Benz) writes:
Steve> While I certainly find your program preferable to the original,
Steve> I question your choice of Perl instead of a shell script.
Steve> Granted, your Perl program would be faster on some systems, but
Steve> (at the risk of making a baseless assertion) the Bourne shell is
Steve> the standard language for writing administrative hackery.

And ForTran used to be the standard language for writing just about
anything that added two or more numbers.  And cards used to be the
standard way of feeding information to a machine.

Times change.
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