Re: any tools to enable test automation for scripting language like perl?

From: Shawn Corey (shawn.corey_at_sympatico.ca)
Date: 10/08/04 

Date: Fri, 08 Oct 2004 09:05:29 -0400

matt wrote:
> I am working on a script language very similiar to Perl.

Why? More specifically, what abilities or features will this language
have that Perl does not? Does it combine Perl's nifty features with
another language's? Aside from being an intellectual exercise, why bother?

        --- Shawn

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