Perl?  What's Perl?  <wicked maniacal laugh>

Seriously though -- what would Perl have over standard MPE JCL in doing
this?
(Quick -- somebody write a version of this app in both MPE JCL and Perl
then compare the two)
...And why is this language so gosh-darn popular, anyway?

Just wonderin'.

Curtis ("Maybe I really SHOULD read that Camel book...") Larsen

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>From:  Ted Ashton[SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
>Sent:  Monday, June 08, 1998 9:50 PM
>To:    Curtis Larsen
>Subject:       Re: Automating Patches
>
>Thus it was written in the epistle of Curtis Larsen,
>> Has anyone ever written a job which gets a listing of patches from
>> i3107ffs.external.hp.com, compares it to what's in their HPSWINFO, then
>> asks a human for approval of what it, or another job, should download?
>> (Or suchlike?)
>>
>> Just wondering...
>>
>>
>> Curtis
>> (Loving automation whenever I can get it)
>
>Probably not, but if I weren't absolutely dead and buried under the workload
>at the moment, I'd whip you something out.  This is a piece-a-cake for perl.
>If you get to doing it, be kind to yourself and at least consider doing in
>perl.
>
>Ted "a Perl evangelist" Ashton
>--
>Ted Ashton ([log in to unmask]), Info Serv, Southern Adventist University
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>Such is the advantage of a well constructed language that its simplified
>notation often becomes the source of profound theories.
>                        -- de Laplace, Pierre-Simon (1749 - 1827)
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