Python would be my choice for the fantasy football task. It's object-oriented, has regular expressions just like Perl, and is easy to maintain. Not to mention the CGI capabilities...
just a thought, Grant On 9/20/05, Lance Orner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Sep 20, 2005 at 05:35:16PM +0200, Damon Jacobsen wrote: > > I have yet to figure out any advantage these other languages offer > > over c++. VB, Perl, Python, etc all seem the same to me. All these > > languages seem to be halfway between c++ and a scripting language. > > The only new language that seems to offer any benefits is Java, but > > only due to its cross platform capability. I would welcome anyone > > who knows/uses these other languages to share their benefits. > > I use C++ my large multiple-month/year project programming language. > The hard structure is needed when things are really complicated and > will be worked on for a long time by lots of people in a production > environment. > > I've use perl for my shorter-term projects. Trying to write a > screen-scraper for my fantasy football team is much quicker with the > syntax of Perl and it's regular expressions. Since the syntax is much > looser, it's quick to throw things together at the expense of long > term maintenance. > > Perl's objecte orient-ness is really bad, however. Trying to store > all of the data on a player in the football team above gets wierd as > you write hashes-in-hashes and such. > > I've been writing more in Ruby because it has fixed some of these > problems. It's quick to make a little class to hold my player data, > then use regex expressions to get the data from the screen. Re-output > everthing as an html page, and we're in business. > > Yes, I could write this in C++ and the Boost libraries, but for > informal programming, these non-compiled languates are so much easier > and make programming more fun. > > -- > Lance Orner > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > _______________________________________________ > RLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.rlug.org/mailman/listinfo/rlug > _______________________________________________ RLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.rlug.org/mailman/listinfo/rlug
