On Sat, 2006-11-04 at 11:51 -0600, Les Mikesell wrote: > Keep in mind that shell makes a great wrapper for starting other > programs and gluing any number of them together, but usually > isn't the best choice for anything that needs a lot of > calculation or data storage. I've got a ton of data files to process. Nothing difficult, just time consuming. I want something quick, simple and light. > If a perl program already exists > that does a step you need (and it probably does, CPAN has > everything...), use it. What is CPAN ? -- Kim Lux, Diesel Research Inc.
