On 01/23/2011 06:11 AM, Michael Meskes wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 08:40:13PM -0500, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>> I think these really need to be rewritten from scratch. They look
>> like they were written by someone who never heard of Perl 5 (it's
>> only about 16 years old).
> You might remember that we had this discussion before. The script was written
> in awk and then translated to perl by a2p. We knew that this code was less than
> optimal, but at least it works.
Oh, I'm sorry, I'd totally forgotten that. At least it explains why it
looks like it's from a time warp. I bet the perl guys haven't touched
a2p for many many years.
cheers
andrew