Re: our favorite languages Problem with dynamic statement in bash

In article <p3tdg4$dp9$1_at_dont-email.me>, [Quoted] The Natural Philosopher <tnp_at_invalid.invalid> wrote:
>No, I was commenting on PHP which I use, extensively. Its a toy
>language. OK for simple scripts on a website.
>
>And PERL, which was all the rage amongst my employees in the 90s
>
>None of them ever produced any useable code in it though.
>
>Wheras the C gurus produced stuff that worked.

[Quoted] You have my condolences that your employees were incompetent, but I can assure you I know lots of people who have written all sorts of perl code that really works.

The abuse.net contact DNS server is written in perl but I doubt you can tell from the outside.

R's,
John

PS: Don't knock COMIT if you haven't tried it. Also snobol3.

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