From: gazelle@shell.xmission.com   
      
   In article ,   
   Lawrence D'Oliveiro   wrote:   
   ...   
   >Whenever somebody mentions Awk, I immediately think Perl does   
   >everything that Awk does, just as concisely, and more besides.   
      
   Whenever I hear someone puff up Perl, I want to throw up.   
      
   Seriously, you almost never hear AWK advocacy - because there is no point   
   in it - we know we have the easier to use and more legible product - but   
   you very often see Perl people say stuff like the above quoted text.  That   
   fact is very telling.   
      
   --   
   "He is exactly as they taught in KGB school: an egoist, a liar, but talented -   
   he   
   knows the mind of the wrestling-loving, under-educated, authoritarian-admiring   
   white male populous."   
       - Malcolm Nance, p59. -   
      
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