New/old programming language making a splash

[William Park]

On Sat, Feb 19, 2005 at 01:23:46AM -0500, Walter Dnes wrote: [...]
> Which brings me to my question.  At work, I'm in the scientific
> support end of things.  I do a lot more slicing/dicing of large
> textfiles than short memos in MS Word.  Before loading up Cygwin on my
> work machine, and starting to use bash scripting (sed/cut/grep/etc)
> heavily, I slapped together quite a few quick-n-dirty QBASIC programs,
> but I never did get into really advanced stuff.

If new QBASIC is anything like the old that I remember, I doubt it will
take off.  But, who knows, translating all those VB scripts might be
money making thing.

For slicing/dicing, I recommend my patch to Bash, which was written to
do exactly that.
    http://freshmeat.net/projects/bashdiff
    http://home.eol.ca/parkw/index.html

More digestable tutorials can be found at
    http://linuxgazette.net/108/park.html
    http://linuxgazette.net/109/park.html
    http://home.eol.ca/~park/park-january.html

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William Park <opengeometry-FFYn/CNdgSA at public.gmane.org>, Toronto, Canada
Slackware Linux -- because I can type.
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