in reply to Re^2: perl and linux (was Re^3: Tired of "Perl is dead" FUD ?)
in thread Tired of "Perl is dead" FUD ?
Startup and shutdown scripts would definitely be the place to start. The reason I'd like also to see many command-line tools done in Perl is threefold. It encourages more tinkering than the current BSD or GNU tools. It also, if they are licensed under Perl's terms, deals with quite a few licensing issues where BSD and GNU tools fall on opposite sides of the fence. I could take my Perl-based, Perl-licensed tools anywhere on any system where they'll work, and not get hassled by others about the license. It's also a bit easier to have portable Perl-based programs for the command line than to write similarly portable ones from scratch in C. Most of the portable C programs that exist got that way over a long period of time.
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Re^4: perl and linux (was Re^3: Tired of "Perl is dead" FUD ?)
by wolfger (Deacon) on Sep 20, 2007 at 13:33 UTC |