🚀 go-pugleaf

jwe@schoch.che.utexas.edu (John W. Eaton) writes:

>...                       I originally wrote it to replace the
>braindead version of man found on most Ultrix systems, and it wasn't
>until after I released the first version that I found out about Tom
>Christiansen's Perl version.  After I saw his list of features, I
>thought everyone would begin to use his programs, but some people
>still use mine.  :-)

Reasons being (amongst others) that perl brings me out in hives. Not
that I don't admire Mr Wall, just that I prefer the leaner models of
swiss army knife to the ones that tear holes in your pocket, and I find
C makes an admirable lightweight swiss army knife...

If somebody could write a perl-to-shell or perl-to-C translator, I'd
use more perl distributed code (treated as 4GL and 'compiled' onto SH/C 
locally...)

-George
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