On Thu, 2008-01-24 at 11:24 +0100, Roger Oberholtzer wrote: > > Dave Howorth wrote: > > > Sergey Mkrtchyan wrote: > > >> Recently I gotta play around with text files too much, hopefully that > > >> will > > >> make me to start reading some shell scripting soon! > > > > > > If you're a biophysicist who expects to make much use of computers, I'd > > > concentrate on learning Perl or Python rather than [bash] shell. IMHO, > > > you'll find them more useful when you interact with other tools or do > > > more complicated tasks and either can do much the same as bash. > > Often overlooked is Tcl (www.tcl.tk), which does excellent text > processing. It properly supports regular expressions as well. And > unicode text. Linux comes with it. ActiveState make packages for many > platforms that makes installation a breeze.
I believe the important thing is not particularly the design or the power of the language itself but the available libraries and other components relevant to the job. I know tcl is used to some extent but AFAIK there are a lot more Perl and Python components that might be relevant to Sergey's work. Cheers, Dave -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
