Toolmakers Digest, Vol 3, Issue 3

[Oleg Bogdanov]

Thanks to everyone for your input.  The overwhelming advice I've gathered is to go with perl after brushing up on unix basics.  Seems like a good catch-all path.  Perl for Dummies has been purchased.

Thanks again,
Oleg

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   1. Re: Noob Question (Andy Johnson)
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Date: Mon, 9 Mar 2009 20:38:57 -0400
From: "Andy Johnson" <andyjohnson at ij.net>
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> awk seems extremely outdated. At a time, its strength was to be always
> available on any Unix machine
>
> I vote for Python, just to start a nice language war.

Agreed, but I think for a beginner just wanting to do some simple tasks, 
Expect might also be a good start..

I've not given Python a fair shake, but I haven't run into much I couldn't 
do with Perl. Plus the existing software and modules out there for Perl keep 
you from reinventing the wheel. 



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Date: Mon, 9 Mar 2009 18:04:24 -0700
From: Andreux Fort <afort at choqolat.org>
Subject: Re: Noob Question
To: Andy Johnson <andyjohnson at ij.net>
Cc: toolmakers at lists.isc.org
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Having spent a long time dealing with awfully written perl and expect, +1 to
Python.  I've written a lot of python in the last two years and never looked
back.

IMO, awk still has its place because it is fast.  Python, well, isn't
really, but cpython extensions and ugh swig make this less of an issue.  My
vote for python comes from the sanity I've regained since I switched from
perl :)

On Mar 9, 2009 5:41 PM, "Andy Johnson" <andyjohnson at ij.net> wrote:

> awk seems extremely outdated. At a time, its strength was to be always >
> available on any Unix mac...
>
> > I vote for Python, just to start a nice language war.
>

Agreed, but I think for a beginner just wanting to do some simple tasks,
Expect might also be a good start..

I've not given Python a fair shake, but I haven't run into much I couldn't
do with Perl. Plus the existing software and modules out there for Perl keep
you from reinventing the wheel.

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