Re: re- shell scripting

1999-07-30 Thread Gaal Yahas
On Fri, Jul 30, 1999 at 03:24:56PM +0300, guy keren wrote: > On Tue, 27 Jul 1999, Gaal Yahas wrote: > > > Aaaarrrggghh!! Will people save themselves the trouble of learning > > csh "programming", then spending hours of funless debugging and > > bug incompatibilities across machines? > > ah... su

Re: [Re: re- shell scripting]

1999-07-30 Thread guy keren
On 28 Jul 1999, chen shapira wrote: > I'd suggest learning python 'nstead of perl. > > its just as powerfull and much much easier to learn and much more readable. i'd re-phrase your claim as well: I'd suggest learning python _AS WELL AS_ perl, because ... (quoet your own reasoning here). rem

Re: re- shell scripting

1999-07-30 Thread guy keren
On Tue, 27 Jul 1999, Gaal Yahas wrote: > Aaaarrrggghh!! Will people save themselves the trouble of learning > csh "programming", then spending hours of funless debugging and > bug incompatibilities across machines? ah... such a short-sighted point of view... it's not like you, gaal. sometimes, y

Re: [Re: re- shell scripting]

1999-07-28 Thread Gaal Yahas
On Wed, Jul 28, 1999 at 07:51:15PM +0300, Herouth Maoz wrote: > >Besides...Obfuscated Python? Nah ;) > > Guys, is this going to become a religious interpreter war? Because if it is, > tell me, and I'll get off the list for a while... If anyone is interested in a professional, religeon-free compa

Re: [Re: re- shell scripting]

1999-07-28 Thread Ariel Biener
On Wed, 28 Jul 1999, Herouth Maoz wrote: > Guys, is this going to become a religious interpreter war? Because if it is, > tell me, and I'll get off the list for a while... I don't see how a bunch of people sharing their experience with different interpreters is a `interpreter war'. Someone was

Re: [Re: re- shell scripting]

1999-07-28 Thread Herouth Maoz
On Wed, 28 Jul 1999 19:25:18 +0300 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Omer) wrote: >After using Perl for 2 years or so, >both on Unix systems and on Win32 (the ActiveState >port is quite good, actually) and trying out >Python, I'd still go with Perl. Nothing, and I mean >NOTHING, can match CPAN for sheer variety

Re: [Re: re- shell scripting]

1999-07-28 Thread Omer
After using Perl for 2 years or so, both on Unix systems and on Win32 (the ActiveState port is quite good, actually) and trying out Python, I'd still go with Perl. Nothing, and I mean NOTHING, can match CPAN for sheer variety and usefulnes. Even MS embraced (ack) Perl, and have commited to extend

Re: [Re: re- shell scripting]

1999-07-28 Thread Ariel Biener
On 28 Jul 1999, chen shapira wrote: Yes yes, but how efficient is it ? My experience with python tells me it is a horrid resource eater. Moreover, does it have all the extensions Perl has (includes from CPAN) ? --Ariel > I'd suggest learning python 'nstead of perl. > > its just as powerfull

Re: [Re: re- shell scripting]

1999-07-27 Thread chen shapira
I'd suggest learning python 'nstead of perl. its just as powerfull and much much easier to learn and much more readable. Chen. "Stanislav Malyshev a.k.a Frodo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > GY>> If you want to write something very simple, go ahead and use Bourne > GY>> shell for it (/bin/sh). Fo

Re: re- shell scripting

1999-07-27 Thread Stanislav Malyshev a.k.a Frodo
GY>> If you want to write something very simple, go ahead and use Bourne GY>> shell for it (/bin/sh). For anything more complex than 20 lines it GY>> does pay to learn Perl[2].. It does pay to learn Perl in any case - because Perl is Good Thing (TM). Even Microsoft knows this :) -- [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: re- shell scripting

1999-07-27 Thread Gaal Yahas
On Tue, Jul 27, 1999 at 11:04:43AM +0300, Moti Levy wrote: > this is for C shell but a nice one > Moti > http://star-www.rl.ac.uk/star/docs/sc4.htx/sc4.html So I'm predictable[1]: Aaaarrrggghh!! Will people save themselves the trouble of learning csh "programming", then spending hours of funles