>>> David Cassell <cassell@MERCURY.COR.EPA.GOV> 12/17/99 12:46pm >>> writes: ...snip... > I showed Mel two Perl one-liners which *do* meet the specs > (in private e-mail), and that hopefully is the end of this > off-topic trayfe. > > Now then, what was the SAS topic again? :-) > > Seriously, can we *please* stop talking about Perl in a SAS > newsgroup?

I agree and henceforth I will restrict any postings about Perl to occasional announcements of Perl-related projects which might be of interest to SAS users. But we should definitely not discuss the arcana of Perl versus SAS syntax (or benchmarks - I am also guilty!) and the like on-list. Nor should we enter into SAS-must-be-better-because-I'm-paying-a-lot-for-it or Perl-is-the-answer-to-life-death-and-everything arguments (...neither proposition is true...).

Tim C