Unix in Perl

An anonymous reader writes "Or at least a pretty comprehensive suite of the classic utilities. Tom Christiansen (well-known in Perl circles) has decided that it is easier to write the utilities in Perl and make them available on all platforms than to constantly rewrite Perl scripts that use backticks. Full details are available right here. "

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Does nobody get the point?

[Logan]

Isn't the whole point of writing these utilities in perl so that a perl coder can expect to have working, standard utilities on every platform? Or did I somehow misread the article. Seems like everyone is coming down on the idea as a stupid let's-redo-everything-in-perl idea, rather than what it really is.

logan