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000042_icon-group-sender _Wed Oct 11 12:00:00 1995.msg
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Received: by cheltenham.cs.arizona.edu; Wed, 11 Oct 1995 12:21:20 MST
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 95 12:00 CDT
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From: gep2@computek.net
Subject: Re: what to use instead of TCL or PERL
To: icon-group@cs.arizona.edu
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>While Perl excels at text-processing,
Oh, give us all a break.
Perl's text-processing features are primitive in the extreme, next to what's
available in Icon or SNOBOL4. Perl's better than C, sure, but that's not saying
much!!
Gordon Peterson
http://www.computek.net/public/gep2/