On Friday 06 January 2006 11:03, Paul Howarth wrote: >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. So there is. And occasionally, one or more of them is actually the right way. :-) Thanks. This list must be pretty well read though, as so far no one's asked what a TANSTAAFL is. >Paul. -- Cheers, Gene People having trouble with vz bouncing email to me should add the word 'online' between the 'verizon', and the dot which bypasses vz's stupid bounce rules. I do use spamassassin too. :-) Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2005 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
