From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 19 14:18:36 2008 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 C323816A421 for ; Tue, 19 Feb 2008 14:18:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tundra@tundraware.com) Received: from ozzie.tundraware.com (ozzie.tundraware.com [75.145.138.73]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7868B13C447 for ; Tue, 19 Feb 2008 14:18:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tundra@tundraware.com) Received: from [192.168.0.2] (viper.tundraware.com [192.168.0.2]) (authenticated bits=0) by ozzie.tundraware.com (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id m1JEIS0M099270 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-DSS-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Tue, 19 Feb 2008 08:18:30 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from tundra@tundraware.com) Message-ID: <47BAE536.70002@tundraware.com> Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2008 08:18:30 -0600 From: Tim Daneliuk Organization: TundraWare Inc. User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (Windows/20071031) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Gary Kline References: <20080219054620.GA33050@thought.org> In-Reply-To: <20080219054620.GA33050@thought.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-tundraware.com-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-tundraware.com-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-tundraware.com-MailScanner-From: tundra@tundraware.com X-Spam-Status: No Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: thankee, thankee! X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: tundra@tundraware.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2008 14:18:36 -0000 Gary Kline wrote: > Giorgos, Joe, Paul , and Tim, > > Thanks for your insights today, gentlemen. I began on what may be a very > worthwhile [ and reasonably small, *thankfully*] program that may benefit > everybody who reads text online. Or off, for that matter. I was using > a shareware version that kept annoying me to shovel $$$ their way when I > finally got PO'd enough to do my own version. The algorithm comes first, > naturally. Then the data structs|classes|. ---I do prelim > coding while I'm planning; helps me figure things out. > > GUI: yes, I will need help with eventually; for now, going back and forth > from that tts app, KTTSmgr(?) and the other shareware, I kept improving > the dickens out of my thesis. Soooo.... see what happens. No offense > to those of us who have hacked out man pages or other docs, but I'm > pretty sure that using these tools will inddeed help improve the online > documentation _considerably_. > > > gary > > > Before you go down this road too far, you should take a look at Python as an implementation language. If what you're doing involves text and string manipulation, Python is loaded with good modules that will make your task a snap. Having coded extensively in many assemblers, C, BASIC, ... I now find myself reaching exclusively for Python when writing applications and utilities unless the task at hand must have the performance of native C. Try it ... you'll be shocked how fast your program comes together. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tim Daneliuk tundra@tundraware.com PGP Key: http://www.tundraware.com/PGP/