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Subject: Re: Advanced scripting languages (was: Learning Ada83)
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"Bj�rn Persson" <spam-away@nowhere.nil> wrote in message
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Marius Amado Alves wrote:

>>> It would also be useful and practical to learn one of the advanced
>>> scripting languages like Perl or Python or Ruby....
>>
>> Wow, they're *advanced* scripting languages now!
>
>Sure, a *lot* more advanced than bat files. ;-)

That's funny, because if it's complicated enough that I can't write a batch
file to do it, I'll generally write it in Ada. Bat has If and Goto, and that
is enough for simple tasks. Beyond that, I want to be able to fix it and be
able to insure that it works...

                   Randy.