From: kcline17@hotmail.com (Kevin Cline)
Subject: Re: Fill string with multiple lines from standard_input
Date: 25 Aug 2002 17:47:11 -0700
Date: 2002-08-26T00:47:11+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ba162549.0208251647.72861127@posting.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: cKV99.1695$Fc4.326481@news.xtra.co.nz
"AG" <ang@xtra.co.nz> wrote in message news:<cKV99.1695$Fc4.326481@news.xtra.co.nz>...
> "Kevin Cline" <kcline17@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:ba162549.0208221236.3ed08fd4@posting.google.com...
>
> > So I am holding to my statement. Perl excels for simple
> > text filtering applications
>
> Hmmm, seems like "simple" above is the keyword.
> Sure you can write a throw-away code in, say,
> SQL to check or count or verify something.
> That's hardly a serious argument to use SQL
> in place of <<your favorite language here>>
It's silly to argue that any ONE language is best for
every problem. The OP's problem, partially encrypting and
forwarding E-mail, is relatively easy in Perl, and if the OP
is going to be needing solutions to similar problems in the future,
he could save a lot of time by learning Perl.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-08-26 0:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-08-14 19:34 Fill string with multiple lines from standard_input Vincent Smeets
2002-08-14 20:37 ` Stephen Leake
2002-08-15 17:57 ` Vincent Smeets
2002-08-15 20:47 ` Stephen Leake
2002-08-19 19:39 ` Vincent Smeets
2002-08-20 15:01 ` Stephen Leake
2002-08-20 18:26 ` Vincent Smeets
2002-08-20 19:46 ` tmoran
2002-08-21 12:50 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
2002-08-21 19:19 ` Randy Brukardt
2002-08-25 0:34 ` AG
2002-08-21 14:37 ` Kevin Cline
2002-08-21 19:47 ` Robert Dewar
2002-08-22 7:40 ` Kevin Cline
2002-08-23 19:49 ` Peter Richtmyer
2002-08-22 20:36 ` Kevin Cline
2002-08-25 0:45 ` AG
2002-08-26 0:47 ` Kevin Cline [this message]
2002-08-15 2:30 ` SteveD
2002-08-15 18:02 ` Vincent Smeets
2002-08-16 0:25 ` Robert Dewar
2002-08-15 19:07 ` Vincent Smeets
2002-08-15 21:49 ` chris.danx
2002-08-16 19:30 ` Ted Dennison
2002-08-17 2:26 ` Randy Brukardt
2002-08-17 10:24 ` Robert Dewar
2002-08-19 13:40 ` Ted Dennison
2002-08-20 0:03 ` Robert Dewar
2002-08-16 17:33 ` Alexei Polkhanov
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