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From:Tudor Davies
Date:5 Sep 2000 at 14:12:59
Subject:Re: Neil's Perl Jealousy ;) (Was: Re: Issue 12)

On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 02:07:50PM +0100, Andy Wanless wrote:

> > you think PERL is cryptic? Take a look at a decent sendmail.cf configuration
> > 8-)
> I made that mistake once. Still have nightmares about it. Things like...
> R$* < @@ $+ > $* $@ $1 < @ $2 > $3
> tend to scare me a lot. At least perl code often has more than 1 letter on
> a line. Sometimes 2 or 3 :)

Bunch of wusses - next you'll be telling me that awk is difficult to use.
Awk and regular expressions rule :)

l8r



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