Subj : Re: Language to Transition To From BASIC?
To : Nightfox
From : Nelgin
Date : Sun Jul 22 2018 03:25 am
Nightfox wrote:
> Re: Re: Language to Transition To From BASIC?
> By: Nelgin to Jagossel on Sat Jul 21 2018 02:56 am
>
> Ne> If you don't need a compiled end product you could use PERL which is easy
> Ne> to use and has tons of modules to allow you to write portable code. PERL
> Ne> will handle all the memory management for you and will probably be a
> Ne> shorter learning curve than using C or C++.
>
> Ne> I found PERL very quick to learn and easy to use...it's probably what
> Ne> stopped me learning C :)
>
> Perl tends to be a lot easier to write than it is to read. These days I might
> prefer Python over Perl (and in fact, I've heard of Python being used a lot
> these days to teach progrmaming).
Yup, Python is another option. Again, something I don't use because I don't
need it. I can do most of the things I need in shell scripts. For those that
deal with a lot of text files and manipulating them one way or another, or
for something regular expression heavy, I use PERL. Even php has a perl
regular expression library. In Python 2.5 the regex module was removed, which
contained Emacs type pattern matching. It now uses re which is privdes
PERL like patching. For regex, you really can't beat PERL.
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