[thelist] What prog. language to focus on???

[Pete Prodoehl]

I'd mention that Perl is probably the most successful at 'code reuse' ala
the modules available on CPAN. There's a pretty good chance that if you want
to do something it perl, it's been done before, and somewhere you'll find
the code to do it. Perl is probably the most cross-platform language (after
BASIC) running on dozens of operating systems.

Not a day goes by I don't use perl for something...

(Python is nice too ;)


Pete


> ----------
> From: 	Scott Dexter
> Reply To: 	thelist at lists.evolt.org
> Sent: 	Thursday, February 08, 2001 12:16 PM
> To: 	'thelist at lists.evolt.org'
> Subject: 	RE: [thelist] What prog. language to focus on???
> 
> 
> > One of the programmers on our current project is using a Perl 
> > script to connect
> > to a mailbox and parse all the mail in it. This is a task 
> > that is far easier in
> > Perl than almost any other language I know.
> 
> recall what perl stands for: Practical Extraction and Reporting Language.
> 
> Larry Wall built it to *rip* through text files. Hence, it Rocks Serious
> for
> web/email/etc....
> 
> <tip type="AOL's start page">
> http://www.aol.com/start.adp is the default start page for AOL 6 users.
> 
> On that page is a big green box that someone can type in a URL and go
> there.
> 
> It prepends "http://" to the URL --NO MATTER WHAT.
> 
> so you get, "http://http://yahoo.com" if you type in "http://yahoo.com"
> into
> that field.
> 
> Got someone beating against tech support right now to get it fixed....
> </tip>
> 
> sgd
> --
> work: http://www.ti3.com/
> non: http://thinksafely.org/
> 
> 
> ---------------------------------------
> For unsubscribe and other options, including
> the Tip Harvester and archive of TheList go to:
> http://lists.evolt.org Workers of the Web, evolt ! 
> 
>