Re: Windows XP script language

On 21 Jan 2005 02:34:25 -0800, jbmorla_at_tiscali.fr (Jean-Benoit MORLA) wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I have just installed Oracle 10.1.0g on a windows XP platform.
>A few years back I was DBA on NT and I discovered a script language
>called kiks32 or cics32.
>I did a google search but found nothing.
>Anyone knows where it's gone?
>Or else, can someone indicate a scripting language that runs on XP pro
>to do simple dba tasks?

Perl. Which is portable across platforms. Which has a huge community. Which is free. And which is available for all major platforms.

 I rediscovered Perl's strength when my Perl DBA scripts had to be carried from Unix to Win32. The effort was minimal, boiling down to replacing '/' with '\'.

• Kenneth Koenraadt (A Perl Hacker)