• From: John Cowan <cowan@m...>
• To: Danny Ayers <danny@p...>
• Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 07:06:06 -0500 (EST)

Danny Ayers scripsit:

> A rather convincing argument against the unix approach could be - my server
> isn't running unix.

Unix by historical origin, but not by current applicability.  Perl runs on
all major environments, and so do the various GNU tools.

> However, I do have an seriously versatile toolbox in the form of Java and I
> don't need another skill set for this application or virtually any other you
> care to mention. 

Sure.  There are *lots* of portable platforms these days.

-- 
John Cowan                                   cowan@c...
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	--Douglas Hofstadter

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