Python and Perl (was: converting perl to python)

Garry Hodgson garry at sage.att.com
Wed May 5 11:19:38 EDT 1999


Jeff Bauer wrote:

> One other debt I must acknowledge.  Prior even to Perl, I
> had many pleasant experiences using Awk.

indeed, before i learned perl, most every tool i wrote was a
	grep | sed | awk
pipeline.  perl was great, allowing all of this to be expressed
in one language.  perl, and tcl/tk before it, caused the big
"Aha!" experience about scripting languages.  then came python,
and i haven't used 'em since.



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