[mythtvnz] RedButton

[Nick Rout]

On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 11:11 AM, Solor Vox <solorvox at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 9:22 PM, Hadley Rich <hads at nice.net.nz> wrote:
>>> > So if I were undertaking such an exercise I would start
>>> > with python, because there are good tutorials and I find it easier to
>>> > understand than perl, and I have a book (somewhere, maybe my son stole
>>> > it!)
>
> For what it's worth, both sed and awk are designed to do the same
> thing, string/stream functions.  The execution time is less than two
> seconds is rather good considering the amount of processing done on
> the files.  At the end of the day awk/python/perl are all interpreted
> scripts as well.  I myself don't care for perl or python so used what
> I liked to write what I needed.  And there lies the beauty of open
> source, if someone else wants to rewrite/port it to python, more power
> too them.

I entirely agree and am certainly not criticising your choice of tool!