Python and Perl (was: converting perl to python)

Ben Caradoc-Davies bmcd at es.co.nz
Fri Apr 30 19:44:13 EDT 1999


On Thu, 29 Apr 1999 23:54:33 GMT, Jeff Bauer <jbauer at rubic.com> wrote:
> One other debt I must acknowledge.  Prior even to Perl, I 
> had many pleasant experiences using Awk.

Yes! I came to perl via csh, awk and bash myself. As a scientific programmer
with a C / Fortran / Matlab background, with the sacrifice-everything-for-that-
last-1%-speedup mentality, scripting was quite an eye-opener.

[Doh! Previously mailed to Jeff - let's keep followups in the newsgroup.
Thanks.] 

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Ben Caradoc-Davies <bmcd at es.co.nz>




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