> And then you can spend your whole life using it for several projects. You cannot do that with perl. That's why awk has a longer shelf life than perl. A Perl

> And then you can spend your whole life using it for several projects. You cannot do that with perl. That's why awk has a longer shelf life than perl. A Perl developer would of course say you have this completely backwards and even if I haven't programmed Perl much, or even at all for the last decade I would tend to agree.