On Thu, 2008-01-24 at 11:24 +0100, Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
Dave Howorth wrote:
Sergey Mkrtchyan wrote:
Recently I gotta play around with text files too much, hopefully that will make me to start reading some shell scripting soon!
If you're a biophysicist who expects to make much use of computers, I'd concentrate on learning Perl or Python rather than [bash] shell. IMHO, you'll find them more useful when you interact with other tools or do more complicated tasks and either can do much the same as bash.
Often overlooked is Tcl (www.tcl.tk), which does excellent text processing. It properly supports regular expressions as well. And unicode text. Linux comes with it. ActiveState make packages for many platforms that makes installation a breeze.
I believe the important thing is not particularly the design or the power of the language itself but the available libraries and other components relevant to the job. I know tcl is used to some extent but AFAIK there are a lot more Perl and Python components that might be relevant to Sergey's work. Cheers, Dave -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org