Scripting problem

[Steve O'Hara-Smith]

On Wed, 11 Oct 2017 17:01:55 -0600 (MDT)
Warren Block <wblock at wonkity.com> wrote:

> Perl is much-maligned, but every time I rewrite a shell script in Perl 
> it gets shorter and easier to maintain.  Or longer and more powerful. 
> Python and Ruby are similar.

	The group of people determined to cram as much functionality into
as few bytes of source as possible (eg RSA encryption in a .sig block) did
Perl's reputation no favours. You can write hideously unreadable executable
line noise in Perl, but you can also write wonderfully clear and expressive
code that is a joy to work with.

-- 
Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve at sohara.org>