Advise: Programming Language to Learn

Paul King sciguy-Ja3L+HSX0kI at public.gmane.org
Mon Apr 9 19:41:19 UTC 2007


> On Mon, Apr 09, 2007 at 01:37:49PM -0400, Stephen wrote:
> > I often need to do utility programs to, for example, extract email 
> > addresses from a text file.
> 
> Well for munging text, it is hard to beat perl (other than for writing
> understandable pretty code).  I suspect python handles text quite well
> too, and is certainly a much cleaner language.  awk could probably do it
> too, but I wouldn't want to inflict that on people in general.
> 

For fear of garnering wrath from purists, I agree even to the extent that perl 
seems to have assumed most of the functionality of sed and awk. If you can 
pattern-match in sed, you can pattern-match in perl, since the syntax is mostly 
the same.

> > I used to use OS/2 REXX and it was great and fast.
> > 
> > What would be a good choice to use on my Linux system?
> > 
> > I know Pascal well, C fair and PHP pretty well.
> 
> I would say try python.  Quite popular, with lots of handy libraries
> available.
> 
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