The Guru

[Bill Campbell]

On Sun, May 25, 2008, Fairlight wrote:
>You'll never BELIEVE what Scott Walker said here...:
>> bit of time tearing out some of the articles to save.  Maybe someday
>> I'll finally master awk but by then it will have been totally superceded
>> by perl....did I get that right?
>
>Perl encompasses so much...including grep, awk, and sed, plus a few shell
>syntaxes, and a lot of C syntax, with a dash of FORTRAN.
>
>Technically speaking, as a superset, it supercedes awk already.  However,
>as Bob Stockler can probably provide benchmarks, certain versions of awk
>may be better in terms of raw performance speeds for pure awk-capable
>applications.  So it's hard to call awk obsolete if you only need the
>functionality of awk without the fat.

If you want without the fat, look at Python.  It's a lot cleaner than perl,
better object oriented capabilities, and it only loads the things you want
to use, not the kitchen sink.  I used perl as my primary language for the
better part of 20 years before learning python to work with Zope and Plone.

My python would make a python purist puke though as I use commented curly
braces to allow me to navigate in the One True Editor, vim.

if condition: #{{
	do some stuff
#}
else: #{
	more stuff
#}}

Bill
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