On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 3:09 PM, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com> wrote: > On 9/17/2010 12:45 PM, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: >> >>> I don't get it. Why wouldn't you just talk to the db directly with >>> perl's dbi/dbd, replacing both the awk and C parts? I do that all the >>> time. Or was that before dbi - or the dbd you needed? >> >> Mike, you really aren't reading all of what I wrote. Perl itself wasn't >> available in '91-'92. > > I think you are mistaken about that. "Programming Perl", covering > version 4 of perl was published in 1991. Check the printing history if > you have a newer copy. Perl itself goes back to 1987 or so. I'm pretty > sure I wrote things in version 1 downloaded through usenet. Not sure > when dbi/dbd came around but before that there were things like oraperl > with specific database clients grafted in. I used Perl4 under DOS to write connective tissue for my business systems in C back in '92. But then, awk under DOS did a lot of help too. -- Eduardo Grosclaude Universidad Nacional del Comahue Neuquen, Argentina