[Info-vax] PERL for OpenVMS Alpha that will install on V8.4

[VAXman- at SendSpamHere.ORG]

In article <l7gfkf$d42$1 at dont-email.me>, Simon Clubley <clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> writes:
>On 2013-12-01, David Froble <davef at tsoft-inc.com> wrote:
>> VAXman- @SendSpamHere.ORG wrote:
>>> 
>>> What ELSE is in there that I no longer need to install???
>>> 
>>
>> I'm so tempted to say PERL ....
>>
>> Ooops, guess I already did ...
>>
>>:-)  <-- don't miss it
>
>Actually, you may joke, but you have a point (at least for new development).
>
>I've known Perl for about a decade now, Python for 2-3 years less than
>that and PHP for about 5 years.
>
>I've come to regard Perl as a legacy scripting language these days.
>For any website stuff I do as part of employment I use PHP. Outside
>of employment (and at work when it's not website related) I use
>Python.
>
>Simon.

Well, this <https://github.com/dilshod/xlsx2csv/blob/master/xlsx2csv.py> in
Python turned out to be less than 40 lines in Perl, replete with being able
to parse *BOTH* .XLS and .XLSX into .CSV!!!

Of course, getting PERL and everything else needed installed on the client's
system was far more effort that scripting the excel to CSV functionality.

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