On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 10:56:57AM +0200, Joachim Schipper wrote: > On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 09:34:35PM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > > On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 01:22:10PM -0700, Bryan Irvine wrote: > > > > > I need a fairly simple menu, and have thought about just simple > > > selects but figured now would also be a good time to learn something > > > new as well. It's nothing so complex that I need to go ncurses to do. > > > Just a basic <option 1> then <option 3> then <run some command> > > > thing. > > > > My front-ends I do in python. It doesn't have a case/select. I just > > use if/then/elif/.... > > > > Then there's Fortran with computed gotos; very slick. I forget the > > syntax but is something like goto (10+choice) > > for each choice until one matches. > > Just pointing out: if Python can do the job at all, you almost certainly > don't need that kind of micro-optimization in Fortran code. Also, this > is a menu. Efficiency is not exactly a big goal.
I don't do enough programming to want to keep track of multiple languages. If I have to read a program in 10 years I want to know what its trying to do. C has too much punctuation everywhere. So I only program in Python and Fortran. > > However, and this is where I go completely off-topic, while we're at it, > you don't need Fortran for this, most languages have equivalent > constructs (C): > > In languages with higher order-functions, this can be written even more > concisely (Scheme): > However, all of this is massively overkill. Just use a shell script. Shell is too much like C (punctuation and spacing matter). (sorry if this sounds anti-unix). I use shell if its like a dos bat file, sequential. Once I have to test conditions and branch I switch to python. Then if something takes a long time (or I know it will before hand), I use fortran 77. Unfortunaly, I can't get my head around regex either. Two hours after I'v written it I can't understand it. So I code it in python or fortran. Doug.
