Gene Heskett wrote:
On Friday 06 January 2006 10:40, Chasecreek Systemhouse wrote:
On 1/6/06, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Errr, no. Much of the reason perl exists is to have a scripting
language that makes all the system calls directly instead of
having to fork a separate program for every step like you
end up doing in shell.
Agreed; just goes to show that TMTOWTDI applies to general systems
administration.
I'll bite, thats a new one on me. Is it a corrollary of TANSTAAFL?
No. As usual google is your friend. TMTOWTDI (There's More Than One Way
To Do It) is the official motto of Perl.
Paul.
