Larry Wall Quotes on Tools
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Besides, it's good to force C programmers to use the toolbox occasionally. :-)
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: And it goes against the grain of building small tools. Innocent, Your Honor. Perl users build small tools all day long.
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: But for some things, Perl just isn't the optimal choice. (yet) :-)
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On the plus side, it's a lot easier in general to find /usr/include than cpp.
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echo $package has manual pages available in source form. echo 'However, you don't have nroff, so they're probably useless to you.
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: I've heard that there is a shell (bourne or csh) to perl filter, does : anyone know of this or where I can get it? Yeah, you filter it through Tom Christiansen. :-)