Re: thankee, thankee!

2008-02-19 Thread Tim Daneliuk
Gary Kline wrote: On Tuesday 19 February 2008 08:16:57 Chad Perrin wrote: On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 09:20:47AM -0500, William Bulley wrote: According to Tim Daneliuk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Before you go down this road too far, you should take a look at Python as an implementation language. If what

Re: thankee, thankee!

2008-02-19 Thread Gary Kline
On Tuesday 19 February 2008 08:16:57 Chad Perrin wrote: > On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 09:20:47AM -0500, William Bulley wrote: > > According to Tim Daneliuk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > Before you go down this road too far, you should take a look at Python > > > as an implementation language. If what you'

Re: thankee, thankee!

2008-02-19 Thread Chad Perrin
On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 09:20:47AM -0500, William Bulley wrote: > According to Tim Daneliuk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > Before you go down this road too far, you should take a look at Python > > as an implementation language. If what you're doing involves text and > > string manipulation, Python

Re: thankee, thankee!

2008-02-19 Thread Pieter de Goeje
On Tuesday 19 February 2008, Girish Venkatachalam wrote: > On 08:29:19 Feb 19, Tim Daneliuk wrote: > > You bet, Perl is terrific. But, Perl is also harder to maintain and > > less readable in the long run (IMHO and many others' too). Language > > wars are silly, of course, one uses the right tool

Re: thankee, thankee!

2008-02-19 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On 08:29:19 Feb 19, Tim Daneliuk wrote: > You bet, Perl is terrific. But, Perl is also harder to maintain and > less readable in the long run (IMHO and many others' too). Language > wars are silly, of course, one uses the right tools for the right > job. But as I said, having programmed fairly w

Re: thankee, thankee!

2008-02-19 Thread Tim Daneliuk
William Bulley wrote: According to Tim Daneliuk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Before you go down this road too far, you should take a look at Python as an implementation language. If what you're doing involves text and string manipulation, Python is loaded with good modules that will make your task a sna

Re: thankee, thankee!

2008-02-19 Thread William Bulley
According to Tim Daneliuk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Before you go down this road too far, you should take a look at Python > as an implementation language. If what you're doing involves text and > string manipulation, Python is loaded with good modules that will make > your task a snap. Having code

Re: thankee, thankee!

2008-02-19 Thread Tim Daneliuk
Gary Kline wrote: Giorgos, Joe, Paul , and Tim, Thanks for your insights today, gentlemen. I began on what may be a very worthwhile [ and reasonably small, *thankfully*] program that may benefit everybody who reads text online. Or off, for that matter. I was using a shareware version that k

thankee, thankee!

2008-02-18 Thread Gary Kline
Giorgos, Joe, Paul , and Tim, Thanks for your insights today, gentlemen. I began on what may be a very worthwhile [ and reasonably small, *thankfully*] program that may benefit everybody who reads text online. Or off, for that matter. I was using a shareware version that kept annoying me to