Re: How to Teach Perl to Scholars in the Humanities

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Re: Re: How to Teach Perl to Scholars in the Humanities by cyocum (Curate) on Jan 30, 2004 at 20:40 UTC
Thanks for the information. I will give it a shot to see if that will work. You may want to read my node on indexing. Many indexers only tell you if something is in a file not where in that file it is. That is useless to a person in the Humanities when a text file is often 600K+, as I point out in that node.	[reply]
Re: Re: How to Teach Perl to Scholars in the Humanities by davidus (Initiate) on Jan 31, 2004 at 18:20 UTC
Agreed. Try to teach those poor souls regex and their eyes will roll right back in their heads. A "normal" search engine (with its boolean logic AND, OR, NOT) will be quite enough of a logical stretch for them. Of course you could always hack up the equivalent of KRAUT or JIVE or "Swedish Chef" as a down and dirty translator if you really want to get their attention :-)	[reply]
Re: Re: How to Teach Perl to Scholars in the Humanities by Anonymous Monk on Feb 02, 2004 at 05:44 UTC
Have you actually ever used Perlfect, or are you just recommending it because it's free and has a pretty box on the site? If you've used it, it's crap. If you've looked at the source, you'll have nightmares. Know what you're recommending before you recommend it.	[reply]