On Thu, 2008-05-01 at 10:57 -0500, David C. Rankin wrote:
Randall Schulz
That's real, real bad news Randall, I'm already 60% through perl.
It's worth taking a look at, if only for familiarization. But don't try to do a "monster" program with it. 10000 lines of shell-script is more maintainable than 100 lines of perl.
Well,
My purpose for looking at perl was I wanted a more robust bash. I wanted something that had better file handling, data structures, loop and conditional expression support, regexp support, floating point, etc.. Just something that would allow me to do in 20-30 lines of code all (or at least 99%) the administrative stuff I need to do, but where I have run into limitations in bash.
If I was ever going to do a big project, it would be in c/c++, (heaven forbid Fortran) something I already know. I thought perl would be a step up in scripting language from bash. Is that the wrong move? Would something else give me all perl's functionality in a better script language? I was really looking forward to the CPAN resource.
You guys let me know what you think. Thanks.
(quite) Some years ago i had to solve a nice puzzle. Eventually i cracked it, with pieces written in bash, csh, awk and sed. Then i was introduced into perl, and love it ever since, as it has all the goods of both (4) worlds. Only drawback is that you have to practice it daily... -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org