<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 9:22 PM, Hadley Rich <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:hads@nice.net.nz">hads@nice.net.nz</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">On Mon, 2010-05-24 at 20:54 +1200, Nick Rout wrote:<br>
> I can't do much more that 'hello world' in any language, but the<br>
> general consensus among those who write such stuff is that perl,<br>
> python and ruby excel at string manipulation, and you are basically<br>
> doing a lot of that when dealing with this sort of data, also there<br>
> are strong tools for manipulating xml in these 'advanced' scripting<br>
> languages. So if I were undertaking such an exercise I would start<br>
> with python, because there are good tutorials and I find it easier to<br>
> understand than perl, and I have a book (somewhere, maybe my son stole<br>
> it!)<br>
<br>
</div>I agree. I'll also add, any modern distribution will have Perl and<br>
Python installed by default. So they aren't really dependencies as such.<br></blockquote><div><br>People have had a few problems with versions or modules or whatever - I remember a couple of threads here. And when I tried it I had some weird issue with character sets. I wouldn't say the choice of Python has been entirely transparent. OTOH I'm sure it was a lot quicker to develop than using say C. <br>
</div></div><br>Cheers,<br>Steve<br><br>