Even more OT it would seem, but harking back to the original subject, Perl isn't looking too bad because I've been working through Java tonight.
$j = <STDIN>; is relatively intuitive for a child of Unix, and it's also documented. BufferedReader keyboard = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(System.in)); String j = keyboard.readline(); is not intuitive, and is hidden very well in the bowels of Sun's API's. Scary, when a language makes me think Perl would be nicer. : ) Heh. Oh, and whoever recommended Eclipse to me? Thank you very much. On Sat, 5 Feb 2005 08:59:30 -0000, Alan Gauld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Surely you jest, Alan. :-) > > Smiley noted but... > > > Both perl and awk are turing complete, hence anything perl can do, > awk > > can do as well. > > This is a popular misconception. > > Being Turing complete simply means you can implement any algorithm. > But if the language doesn't provide I/O access for example it is > impossible to write a device driver, or a comms stack, or any of > a host of other low level programs. awk is non extendable (unless > you have the source code!) so you can't do those things. Perl is > not only extendable but actually comes wth a heap of those kinds > of features that awk just doesn't have. And no amount of clever > algorithms can compensate. Awk was designed for one task which it > does spectacularly well but it was never intended for general > purpose use. > > I/O is just one example, there are meny more... > > Alan G. > > _______________________________________________ > Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor > -- 'There is only one basic human right, and that is to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, to take the consequences. _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
