* Jan Kesten | Here is the perl way of opening a file, reading it and sorting the | lines into a new file:
#! /usr/bin/perl -w use strict; my $file = shift; open IN, "<$file" or die "Can't open $file: $!"; open OUT, ">$file.sorted" or die "Can't open $file.sorted: $!"; print OUT sort <IN>; This is fairly readable to me at least; yes, it's possible to write it shorter, and it's possible to write it without strict, but it's a nice safety net. | And the python way looks like this: [...] | Some other thing is that python knows about classes :-) But I do not | want to start a discussion about pro perl or python :-) I don't think the python code here looks better at all. It's possible to write both readable and unreadable python or perl. -- Tollef Fog Heen ,''`. UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are : :' : `. `' `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]