Old posts ....

[TechCode]

I compleately forgot about this forum. I came back because i was searching for techcode on google (i have www.techcode.net).

But i noticed that all the posts are quite old ones ?!? :(

Why is perl being "droped off" ? :(

[kryptech.net]

umm... Python Rules! and is a lot easier to learn, sure, perl is still used by sys admins for quick shell scripts, but python has a lot of modules to play around with(however not as many as perl) and you can learn it really fast, as it is almost pesudo code, fell free to disagree.

[Whiteknight]

i like perl, although i dont know enough python to make a direct comparison.

If you need any help with perl code, feel free to post a question, i'm sure we could help you out.

I've fallen in love with the amazingly simple string handleing functions and abilities of perl, but, thats just me.

[gold_dragon]

Think there are entire forums and web sites devoted to just Perl so that could be one reason.

[jemfinch]

Originally posted by Whiteknight
I've fallen in love with the amazingly simple string handleing functions and abilities of perl, but, thats just me.

Perl's string manipulation functions may be flexible, or powerful, or obfuscated, but they're certainly not simple.

There's no reason to learn Perl if you don't already have a codebase to maintain in it. Even if you do, you should strongly consider rewriting it in Python :)

Jeremy

[gold_dragon]

I think this is simple:split /[\t]/;or:/^([a-f0-9]*)$/
#or
substr() #function.True that you can do most of everything from Java in other programming languages and Perl's advantages are becoming standard in most other languages. I would like to see better regex functions in C++ and be able to process strings just like I can from Perl in other languages. C++ is coming close and I like how Java does it also. My experience with programming languages is fairly limited so I can't say much.

[kryptech.net]

I'm with jemfinch, python is really easy to maintain, and learn.

[little birdy]

Originally posted by jemfinch
Perl's string manipulation functions may be flexible, or powerful, or obfuscated, but they're certainly not simple.Even though I'm a big fan of Perl, I agree completely. To many people, Perl programs can look awfully weird (and sort of cryptic, hah).

I'm making the transition from Perl to Python; however, I'm sure I'll still use Perl for some things.