martin f krafft wrote: [snip] > ... to get into scripting, i suggest you play around with > bash scripts and learn all the tools that come with UNIX, such as: > sed, tr, cut, grep, cat, tac, sort, uniq to name just a few. then you > might want to start looking at awk, or you might want to head for > perl, which is the ultimate scripting language.
I can't let calling perl the ultimate scripting language pass without comment. In fact, imo, both python and ruby are better (although if you really need an enormous library of stuff like CPAN, then perl does beat out the others there). But if you don't need that mass of thousands of support modules for virtually anything you might want to do (without having to code it yourself) then you might want to check out ruby, a very neat scripting language, and maybe a better starting point for a beginner to learn some more "advanced" stuff, like object-oriented programming... which is a syntactic headache in perl. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
