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Re: OT: what scripting language to learn?



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Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 03:23:57AM +0200, s. keeling wrote:
>  
>> I strongly agree, and this knowledge is portable.  All of the *nix
>> tools, including shell, perl, and python, rely on regex
>> understanding.
> 
> One can get along just fine in python without using regex.  I'm living
> proof.  Sure, the regex module lets you do neat one-liners, but I hate
> one-liners especially when I'm tired.
> 
> Doug.
> 
> 

I use python all day every day, and rarely if ever use the re module.

Most of the same stuff can be done with python's (awesome) string libs.
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