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[Shayne O'Neill]

Python!

Theres a really neato tutorial that comes with python that can be done in
a couple of sittings and all things being equal will have you up and
running pretty much straight away.

Now, that said, perls forte is definately regex stuff, which is nifty for
logfile analysers etc, however, its all quite doable in python too.

Personall I feel perl just looks like line noise to me however.

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On Wed, 24 Nov 2004, Brad Campbell wrote:

> G'day all,
>
> Time to bite the bullet.
>
> I'm a Pascal/Asm/Soldering Iron programmer with a smattering of whatever else it takes to get the
> job done (usually bash, sed, awk and bc/dc).
> I now have a need to learn a "swiss army knife" style language that is going to take me further than
> bash scripting.
>
> Perl or Python?
>
> My first task is a basic log file analyser, so I thought Perl might be the one to go for but it
> seems Python has a few advantages and could take me further in the long run.
>
> (Stands back with arms folded behind 12 inches of lead glass)
>
>
> --
> Brad
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