Re: scripting
martin f krafft wrote:
[snip]
> ... to get into scripting, i suggest you play around with
> bash scripts and learn all the tools that come with UNIX, such as:
> sed, tr, cut, grep, cat, tac, sort, uniq to name just a few. then you
> might want to start looking at awk, or you might want to head for
> perl, which is the ultimate scripting language.
I can't let calling perl the ultimate scripting language pass without
comment. In fact, imo, both python and ruby are better (although if
you really need an enormous library of stuff like CPAN, then perl does
beat out the others there). But if you don't need that mass of
thousands of support modules for virtually anything you might want to
do (without having to code it yourself) then you might want to check
out ruby, a very neat scripting language, and maybe a better starting
point for a beginner to learn some more "advanced" stuff, like
object-oriented programming... which is a syntactic headache in perl.
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