Hey Paul, Reply went to you, and not the list. What's the story? Paul wrote:
Hi,Carey Evans did a talk on this at a CLUG meeting a few years back (yes, we had one or two per year back then, in a good year). He compared bash, Tcl, python, and perl. It was very good - he had a small but non-trivial example program for each language that did the same thing, so we could compare the differences. I suspect the audience (about 40 or so people) were not quite so newbie-ish.
I have an idea for a CLUG meeting. I would be a great help to people who have just started linux to get an brief overview of the different scripting languages, the advantages and disadvantages. I would be more than happy to talk on python. Maybe others could talk on Shell Scripting, Perl, Ruby, Awk, Tcl/Tk and any others.
When I started Linux I had to do quite a bit of research till I decided to learn perl, then I decided that it was was probably about as easy to decrypt DES (in your head) than to read a lot of the perl scripts I found on the net. I then learnt python.
It was my first exposure to python. I went on to teach myself python (easiest programming language I've ever learned, by the way) and now use it as my programming language of choice for *nearly* everything (C and Java cover all the cases I've come across where python doesn't fit well, and python interfaces easily with both languages.).
I don't know if Carey is still on the list... Haven't seen a post from him in a while.
Hey! I found it:
http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/doc/
Thanks, google.
Cheers,
Carl.
