2014-01-14 7:05 UTC−08:00, Pádraig Brady wrote: > On 12/25/2013 01:00 PM, Florent Monnier wrote: >> 2013/12/24, Pádraig Brady wrote: >>> On 12/24/2013 12:25 PM, Florent Monnier wrote: >>>> Hello, >>>> >>>> This patch adds a --color option to the commands md5sum and shaXsum. >>>> The goal is to make it easier to visually identify similarities in a >>>> list of printed checksums. [...] > ... A separate tool could have more options like a larger color palette, > different formatting options than just directly coloring the checksum, ... > >> The colordiff wrapper is written with Perl (5 if I'm not mistaken). [...] >> >> In your opinions, which programming/scripting language could be >> appropriate, beside perl, for writting such a tool? > > Any general purpose language with good string handling, > for example python.
Hi Pádraig, Python seems indeed to be a quite popular language. And if it was Perl, do you think it would be better with Perl 5 or 6? -- Cheers Florent
