William Gordon Rutherdale wrote: > C is a good solution. So is Perl, which comes on OS 2008. So is > Python. Perl lets you construct nested lists, which gives you the > equivalent in capability to multi-dimensional arrays. Python gives > similar constructs. > > There is no reason IMHO to be writing shell scripts of any kind on a > system where Perl and Python are available. > > Shell programming is just weak for many reasons including lack of data > structure capabilities and should be avoided whenever possible. I say > this as someone who has accumulated years of shell programming > experience in a professional software shop as well as other languages. > > The strongest of the shell programming languages, namely bash and ksh, > have this problem. Perl and Python are practical for exactly the reason > that they are good replacements for these shell languages. > > -Will I agree with you here that perl and python are easier to do complex things with than bash or ksh, but I wanted to point out that python may be the better choice on the Nokia tablets. Perl is my favorite language, but the perl install on the tablets is missing a lot of the standard modules. For example, 'perl -e "use English;"' gives an error. python seems to be a more complete install and even includes gtk, so it's arguably the best choice of scripting language for the platform given what's preinstalled and in extras.
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