On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 03:28:55PM +0300, Ehud Karni wrote: > First let me state that I know some programming languages (practically, > I've written applications in all of them) - Fortran, Algol, Cobol, > C, Lisp (emacs, not CL) and about 10 various assemblers (again, with > practical experience). I don't refer to scripting languages (shell, > perl and even awk) as programming languages (although they share the > basic principles and I use them a lot).
I don't have exprince much exprince with awk. As far as shell: I fully agree. But perl, python and other languages are not simply "scripting languages". As opposed to shell, those languages are actually compiled, which means most silly errors will be detected at compile time. And as opposed to Fortran, C, C++, Java and the rest: you don't have to run a separate compiler, which makes the language a bit easier to use. -- Tzafrir Cohen +---------------------------+ http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir/ |vim is a mutt's best friend| mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +---------------------------+ ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
