On Thursday 20 June 2013 15:00 Tim Streater wrote in uk.d-i-y:

In article ,
(D.M.Chapman) wrote:

In article ,
Tim Streater wrote:

I use PHP for command scripts, too. Shell stuff is for the birds.

Urghhh! Perl is the correct answer for that stuff (with a bit of bash at
times)

No, perl is even worse than bash etc. Perl's designers need a good smack.


No they don't. PHP designers (if you can call them that) need a good smack.

Perl has a well defined and elegant syntax. "Compact" != "Bad"
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