On Sun, May 15, 2005 at 06:13:19PM +1200, Nick Rout wrote: > I couldn't work out which message in the "pike and python" thread was > the most appropriate to respond to so I started a new thread. > > How about this for an idea: propose a (reasonably simple) problem that > is a typical scripting job, involving, say, text processing, file > operations, network operations. Get a string of people to show how they > would approach the problem in bash, perl, python, ruby, and wherever > else we have the skill base.
i like that. that would also work with richards idea of a side by side comparison, and i can provide write-in examples for pike for you to pick apart. greetings, martin. -- cooperative communication with sTeam - caudium, pike, roxen and unix offering: programming, training and administration - anywhere in the world -- pike programmer travelling and working in europe open-steam.org unix system- bahai.or.at iaeste.(tuwien.ac|or).at administrator (caudium|gotpike).org is.schon.org Martin B�hr http://www.iaeste.or.at/~mbaehr/
