[plug] Religous war pending

Brad Campbell brad at wasp.net.au
Thu Nov 25 13:48:52 WST 2004


Leon Blackwell wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 24, 2004 at 05:28:50PM +0400, Brad Campbell wrote:
> 
>>Perl or Python?
> 
> 
> As the voice of confusion, I'm going to have to mention PHP and Ruby
> here.  It all really depends what you want to do with these languages.
> Perl is good with text, python is good with numbers.  These langauges
> all come with various capabilities and existing source-base that will
> make you life a lot easier.
> 
> 
> 
>>My first task is a basic log file analyser
> 
> 
> You could, of course, use an existing solution for this  :)

Possibly, although I'm actually generating the logfiles myself from another script so they are not a 
known quantity outside my own machine.

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Brad
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