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Article #2915Re: Which to use :- Perl, Python, Icon, ... ?
From: Tom Christiansen
Date: Thu, 07 Mar 1991 22:02
Date: Thu, 07 Mar 1991 22:02
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From the keyboard of cjeffery@cs.arizona.edu (Clinton Jeffery): :From article <BEVAN.91Mar5123224@tiger.cs.man.ac.uk>, by bevan@cs.man.ac.uk (Stephen J Bevan): :Generally, my guess is that you would find Icon better for complex :string analysis tasks that don't fit into neat regular expressions, :or for programs that use extracted information in complex ways. :Perl looks better for the jobs that it was designed to handle. As in? What kind of "complex ways" are you talking about? I think that's what the poster wants. --tom -- I get so tired of utilities with arbitrary, undocumented, compiled-in limits. Don't you? Tom Christiansen tchrist@convex.com convex!tchrist
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!newstop!texsun!convex!usenet From: tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen) Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc Subject: Re: Which to use :- Perl, Python, Icon, ... ? Message-ID: <1991Mar07.220237.3563@convex.com> Date: 7 Mar 91 22:02:37 GMT References: <BEVAN.91Mar5123224@tiger.cs.man.ac.uk> <1073@caslon.cs.arizona.edu> Sender: usenet@convex.com (news access account) Reply-To: tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen) Distribution: comp Organization: CONVEX Software Development, Richardson, TX Lines: 16 Nntp-Posting-Host: pixel.convex.com