Re: 'Best Sample Perl Scripts' Posted on Microsoft Site

What I find depressing is that all 112 programs in the index do nothing more than simple reporting
(at least based on their titles: they all say "List ...")

Wouldn't it be nice if the perl hackers at Microsoft used perl for more active/interactive purposes as well?

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Re^2: 'Best Sample Perl Scripts' Posted on Microsoft Site by Anonymous Monk on Jul 15, 2005 at 20:26 UTC
They probably mean the language language Perll, which stands for: Practical Extraction, Reporting and Listing Language. Funny to see that their creativity is limited to generating lists of useless stuff ...	[reply]
Re^3: 'Best Sample Perl Scripts' Posted on Microsoft Site by jdporter (Paladin) on Jul 16, 2005 at 13:39 UTC
Well, (a) I'm not saying the stuff they're listing is useless, and (b) reporting and listing are synonymous here, and (c) that apocryphal acronymic expansion touches only the tip of the iceberg of what perl is capable of. (Not that I'm trying to be argumentative...)	[reply]
Re^3: 'Best Sample Perl Scripts' Posted on Microsoft Site by tcf03 (Deacon) on Jul 19, 2005 at 17:51 UTC
I think they are actually using PERL :) Ted -- "That which we persist in doing becomes easier, not that the task itself has become easier, but that our ability to perform it has improved." --Ralph Waldo Emerson	[reply]