Disagree to disagree again. I certainly don't think Perl is less capable than awk. And awk is only easier to learn because there's less to it. If someone only wanted to use Perl for exactly what awk does I suspect they would find Perl easier. And awk's terseness is part of what I don't like about it. Unwrapping those statement's and puzzling out what they do can be hellish. Of course, I do understand that if you use it every day, you get use to it like any other language...then again, that was the whole theory behinf APL :-)
For what it's worth, I'm a big fan of LISP and Prolog but can't find any reason to really use them any more. And for whoever complained about the proprietary language they have to use daily, I suggest you take a look at ADA. It was intended to be self documenting and was designed by committee. They started with Pascal and decided it was too terse :-) PROCEDURE myfun Became PROCEDURE myfun BODY IS (or something similar, it's been years...err, decades) Jeff -----Original Message----- From: Alan Gauld [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2005 6:31 PM To: Smith, Jeff; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: tutor@python.org; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Tutor] Are you allowed to shoot camels? [kinda OT] > We'll just have to have to disagree about awk. > I starting learning Perl to avoid learning awk :-) Really? Why for? awk is far easier to learn than Perl - and far less generally capable! - but it makes Perl seem positively verbose! Alan G. _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
