, on 11/20/98
at 05:43 AM, dallasii@kincyb.com said:
>I need to thank Steve Levine for helping me out on my multitasking
>experiment.
Your welcome. It refreshed my memory.
>The guys point was to challenge the predominant idea of "REXX vrs. PERL",
>and instead show them in harmony.
He's right. IMO, you design a solution and then pick the best language
for the job. Most folks just use what they know.
>I kick out SED as an idea because it's relatively easy to learn, easy to
>install etc.
I have a similar approach. My pick order for text processing is
approximately:
grep/cut
sed
awk
perl
C/C++
I add complexity as needed to get the processing speed/features I need. I
am tending to use Perl more often lately for jobs that sed could do
because it's easy to make perl run in "sed" mode. I use 4OS2 so I can run
perl scripts (and sed and awk) from the command line without wrappers,
similar to unix #! executables.
Steven
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