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On Tue, Sep 24, 2002 at 09:11:27PM +0100, Chris wrote: > > I more often see Perl compared to Java these days rather than Sed and Awk. > They seem to fill similar niches as glue languages, binding legacy systems > to newer systems (old Databases to intranets ... etc.) Yeah. It's a comparison I find a little distasteful, but it's not really a bad one, in the end. Perl is related to sed and awk mostly because of its origins and some of its syntax, not because of its purpose or scale -- although it's great at doing what they did, plus lots. > Although that said I have seen a total re-write of Awk in perl, and Perl > has been defined at one point as a port of that semi-natural language > called "unix". Perl is a great linguistic gumbo: there's C, awk, Ada, sh, and more stuff. You could probably implement any existing little language in it, if you really wanted to. And Chris is right: its general shape makes it a good part of the UNIX IDE/OS. > >> i am on win nt server. > > > > I suggest you look into learning Vim. It's a very powerful, efficient > > editor. Failing that, there are more powerful Notepad replacements. I > > can't name any offhand. > > Under unix I use vi(m) under Windows I use HTMLKit. > I hesitate to reccomend HTMLKit for anyone who doesn't work so exclusively > on the web as I do, but it does support Perl syntax coloring, and help > files. It also uses Perl as one of it's plugin extension languages (along > with VB, Java, C++ and others). Best of all it's free. Well, HTMLKit is gratis -- free of charge. It isn't free software. -- rjbs
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