From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 7 03:36:48 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 19ACF106564A for ; Tue, 7 Feb 2012 03:36:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from merlyn@stonehenge.com) Received: from mail.mroute.net (lax-gw02.mailroute.net [199.89.0.102]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EEF018FC0A for ; Tue, 7 Feb 2012 03:36:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by lax-gw02.mroute.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 795EE1DF0E4 for ; Tue, 7 Feb 2012 03:36:47 +0000 (GMT) X-Virus-Scanned: by MailRoute Received: from red.stonehenge.com (red.stonehenge.com [208.79.95.2]) by lax-gw02.mroute.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id B75CE1DF051 for ; Tue, 7 Feb 2012 03:36:46 +0000 (GMT) Received: by red.stonehenge.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id AB43D2750; Mon, 6 Feb 2012 19:36:46 -0800 (PST) From: merlyn@stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <3411412722-917504491@intranet.com.mx> <4F30849D.2020408@herveybayaustralia.com.au> x-mayan-date: Long count = 12.19.19.2.1; tzolkin = 10 Imix; haab = 9 Pax Date: Mon, 06 Feb 2012 19:36:46 -0800 In-Reply-To: <4F30849D.2020408@herveybayaustralia.com.au> (Da Rock's message of "Tue, 07 Feb 2012 11:55:41 +1000") Message-ID: <868vkfxqk1.fsf@red.stonehenge.com> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.3 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Subject: Re: Software Development using Freebsd. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 07 Feb 2012 03:36:48 -0000 >>>>> "DDa" == Da Rock writes: >> Would you do that with Python or something else? DDa> Depending on what you really need to solve decides your DDa> language. Others have offered advice here, but may I suggest Perl? DDa> For most data and its proven ability to handle/match string data it DDa> is very useful. And using tk it will run on windows as well. At this point, there's absolutely nothing that Python can do that Perl can't, and very likely vice versa. However, from personal experience, I know that Larry Wall understands Object Oriented Programming, and Guido definitely doesn't get it. Obviously, other people have worked on both languages, but keep that in mind. I can present my evidence of how Guido doesn't get it in a longer post, if prompted. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 Smalltalk/Perl/Unix consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See http://methodsandmessages.posterous.com/ for Smalltalk discussion