Frank Conradie wrote:
>
> > You should give it a try :-)
> >
> > Perl is just an other tool. But it could be very useful for some task
> > automation.
> >
> > For instance, I usually write script to extract some data we recieve
> > from our customer (in .doc format) and convert them into SQL format,...
>
> Hang on a minute! I prefer to use Python - it's also "just another tool" and
> a lot better that Perl in my opinion. But we can't just each throw our own
> favourite tool into Turbine - we'll end up with a 100MB download and even
> more confused newbies!
>
Absolutly agree!
This was not a once-again-programming-language-flame.
As far as I understand the discussion, we won't use Perl, Python, Tcl,
or anything but small .bat and .sh files.
Just mean it there are many good tools on the net, they are free, so
feel free to use them if they can help you.
BTW: I do prefer Python too :-)
Didier.
> Greetings, Frank
>
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