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in thread Finding the Day of Week in Windows

This algorithm is perfect for programs in other languages, but not in Perl... Why use something like this at all when there are so many builtins that do the job???
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Re: Re: Re: Finding the Day of Week in Windows
by BigLug (Chaplain) on Jan 07, 2003 at 13:01 UTC
    Name one that doesn't require any modules. And I mean any modules. Including POSIX. Sure, I know that they all come with perl but why open yet-another file when if all you want from it is to compute the day of the week for a particular date?