On 22 Nov., 10:53, paul womack <pwom...@papermule.co.uk> wrote: > "back in the day" (g)awk was useful (and I used it).
it is still on every UNIX-like system, ready to go. Ubiquitous. Allowed me to just write a five-liner to be run from the shell to make my point. > However, with perl now so mature and widely installed > (or installable) I view awk as of historical interest only > I use, and would recommend, perl as a "scripting glue" language. I use, and would, and did recommend Python as a scripting language. I suspect perl is as powerful. Python got me first. And as far as (most?) Linux systems go, Python is already there - no need to install anything. > Perl has a helpful combination of syntactic convenience > and a huge library of pre-cooked code. I had a good look at Panotools-Script. I can only subscribe to what Eric O'Brien wrote above. It may be extremely cool code, but I found it very hard to figure out what it actually did. I feel that Python is more legible. with regards Kay -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Hugin and other free panoramic software" group. A list of frequently asked questions is available at: http://wiki.panotools.org/Hugin_FAQ To post to this group, send email to hugin-ptx@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to hugin-ptx+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/hugin-ptx
