On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 1:44 PM, Steve Loughran <[email protected]>wrote:
> prefer python as its more common on systems by default, works on windows > Python is more common on systems because RedHat has embraced it for many of its tools. But Ruby works on Windows, too; see http://rubyinstaller.org/ But my main point is that shells don't represent more complex datastructures well, nor are they good at operating on them. E.g. compared to Ruby/Python/Perl, bash has poor and clunky string and array manipulation, and virtually no support for associative arrays (hashes). Jos -- Jos Backus jos at catnook.com
