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Bloodnok
Aside from the fact that there is, undeniably, only perl for scripting on Windoze machines (if that isn't a contradiction in terms), one thing that, for *NIX machines, hasn't, AFAICT, yet been mentioned is that perl is installed other than on the root partition - thus any system scripts requiring the availability of perl (and the necessary parts of its' myriad of wonderful library modules) cannot start until the appropriate partition(s) has/have been checked and mounted ... but to get to that point perl must be available... mmmm, bit of a circular dependency thingy goin' on here methinx.
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IMO, this is a classic case of <EM>horses for courses</EM> - shell script is marvellous (C shell excepted of course - Tom Christianson. [http://www.perl.com/pub/language/versus/csh.html]) for *NIX systems programming - for all else, perl is, by far & away, the front runner.
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Just my 10 p'worth...
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At last, a user level that overstates my experience :-))
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