Perl was chosen because of its text-parsing and internet capabilities; and because it is widely available.
Case in point: interactive fiction, which, because of its text-based nature, works on all computing platforms.
Both the Analytical Data Interchange (ANDI) format [31, 32] (built using netCDF) and JCAMP-DX are still in use today with the JCAMP-DX specification more prevalent because of its text-based format.
The 1978 find — called the Codex Tchacos, for one of its successive owners, Frieda Tchacos Nussberger — was even more surprising, because one of its texts, twenty-six pages long, was entitled "The Gospel of Judas".
By acting at the command-line and because of its intuitive, text-based input, Facile is quick to learn and can be incorporated into larger programs or into automated tasks.
But CTS and its supporters argue that the CERCLA amendment is not applicable to the current case because its text refers only to "statutes of limitation," and the North Carolina law in question involves a "statute of repose".
Tregelles did not collate its text because of its secondary value.
Although Buridan remained the predominant figure in logic, Albert's Perutilis logica was destined to serve as a popular text because of its systematic nature and also because it takes up and develops essential aspects of the Ockhamist position.
For these reasons and because of its inherent strengths as a text, it is a significant contribution.
However, because of its lack of a written text for its focus, it was seen as a vehicle for entertainment rather than for social, moral or intellectual ideas.
The African-Irish theatre company Arambe was clearly drawn to this text because of its resonances with present-day Ireland, in which rapid inward migration is bringing issues of ethnic and national identity to the fore.
