Randall R Schulz wrote:
On Thursday 01 May 2008 00:36, Sam Clemens wrote:
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I gave up on perl. It makes my brain hurt -- like trying to read 1970's era BASIC code.
I concur. Perl verges on being an abomination. "Pathetically eclectic rubbish lister" indeed!
I once (in the Perl 4 era) wrote a code generation tool in Perl, but I no longer can even read that stuff.
If you're going to start programming things that go beyond what works well in BASH, you'd be better off with Python or Ruby or even Groovy.
Randall Schulz
That's real, real bad news Randall, I'm already 60% through perl. Bummer. Python huh? I'll look at it. I presume it handles floating point, and has the capabilities of perl? (oh no, here we go again...) -- David C. Rankin, J.D., P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org