"MENEZES, ALAIN" wrote:
>
> >   Never fork a process unless you need to.   For example, I
> > constantly see people writing code that will do a `nslookup` rather
> > than
> > use gethostbyname().
> >
>         [MENEZES, ALAIN]  Do you mean that perl scripts can use
> subroutines (like e.g. gethostbynames() ) ?

Exactly! Perl is very feature rich in this area, even perl4.   I can
actually do a fork(), exec(), wait(), open sockets, there's even a
generic interface to the kernel using syscall().

With perl5, the story gets better.   I can dynamically load libraries
and write modules which can call just about any API library I want to.
Actually, I have always wanted to take some time and write some wrappers
to allow me to use the Netview libraries from perl5.

PS. I wish the Netview NT people had chosen perl rather than Tcl.

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