Re: gEDA-user: Perl

2011-05-31 Thread Jim Lynch
On 05/27/2011 11:54 AM, DJ Delorie wrote: This is more anecdotal than anything else... I'm a Perl fan myself. (shudder) Javascript! ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user

Re: gEDA-user: Perl

2011-05-31 Thread Thomas Oldbury
Python! On 31 May 2011 11:26, Jim Lynch [1]j...@k4gvo.com wrote: On 05/27/2011 11:54 AM, DJ Delorie wrote: This is more anecdotal than anything else... I'm a Perl fan myself. (shudder) Javascript! ___ geda-user

Re: gEDA-user: Perl

2011-05-30 Thread John Doty
On May 29, 2011, at 12:01 AM, Dave McGuire wrote: This is my opinion, speaking as a professional developer of both hardware and software: Scheme was a good choice for gEDA, and it should be left alone. The chosen implementation of Scheme, guile, may not be the best tool for the job

Re: gEDA-user: Perl

2011-05-28 Thread Karl Hammar
wpd: ... I stopped liking perl when I learned why this script didn't do what I expected it to do: Don't expect too much. Every computer system/os/language has their own strange things/visions/words that does not mean what you expect them to. #!/usr/bin/perl -w my @array = (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6,

Re: gEDA-user: Perl

2011-05-28 Thread Dave McGuire
On 5/27/11 10:55 PM, John Doty wrote: My intro to Perl was about 20 years ago, when one of my Japanese colleagues asked me to bring a couple of copies of the Perl book over, because it was unavailable in Japan. So, I bought them at Quantum Books. I read one of them on the long plane flight. My

Re: gEDA-user: Perl

2011-05-28 Thread Karl Hammar
Karl: wpd: ... #!/usr/bin/perl -w my @array = (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11); print length(@array), \n; ... Maybe things have changed since then, but I spent way too much time being confused by this. If you really want to understand why this prints 2, look at this: $ perl -e

gEDA-user: Perl

2011-05-27 Thread DJ Delorie
This is more anecdotal than anything else... I'm a Perl fan myself. (shudder) Just before I learned Perl (WAY before python existed, before perl 5 even), my manager was talking to *his* manager about this nifty new tool called perl that they just discovered. Apparently, their metric for

Re: gEDA-user: Perl

2011-05-27 Thread Mark Rages
On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 10:54 AM, DJ Delorie d...@delorie.com wrote: Shortly after, I needed it, so I learned it.  It'll be the same with Python, just like it was with Scheme.  I'm a compiler engineer - picking up languages is second nature to me. Python is really easy to learn. Dive in:

Re: gEDA-user: Perl

2011-05-27 Thread David C. Kerber
-Original Message- From: geda-user-boun...@moria.seul.org [mailto:geda-user-boun...@moria.seul.org] On Behalf Of DJ Delorie Sent: Friday, May 27, 2011 11:55 AM To: gEDA user mailing list Subject: gEDA-user: Perl ... You can implement arrays of hashes, hashes of arrays, arrays

Re: gEDA-user: Perl

2011-05-27 Thread Patrick Doyle
On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 11:54 AM, DJ Delorie d...@delorie.com wrote: This is more anecdotal than anything else... I'm a Perl fan myself. (shudder) Oh goody! flame war bate! I stopped liking perl when I learned why this script didn't do what I expected it to do: #!/usr/bin/perl -w my

Re: gEDA-user: Perl

2011-05-27 Thread John Doty
On May 28, 2011, at 12:54 AM, DJ Delorie wrote: This is more anecdotal than anything else... I'm a Perl fan myself. (shudder) Just before I learned Perl (WAY before python existed, before perl 5 even), my manager was talking to *his* manager about this nifty new tool called perl