Here is my take on the languagues: 

Perl - Basic on steriods, instant gratification and debugging
     - Got a bad wrap in CGI circles because it was so easy to
     - do CGI stuff that lots of people did - BADLY
C    - THE language that made programming what it is today
     - All the power of assembler in a (slightly) more user friendly package
ASM  - Everything ends up here. To code C you need to have
     - a handle on the guts of the system anyway
C++  - C extended to do OO better. Unnecessary for single programmer
     - as you can do it in C in half the code (procedural)
     - Forces you to be OO which is not needed for short stuff
     - It is way easier to do multi-programmer stuff OO with solid APIs
     - Yeah, yeah what starts little often suffers featuritis 
Java - C++ with all the power toys taken away. Comiles to bytecode not ASM
     - Supposed to be portable but MS got involved ;-)
     - speed not that great due to partial compilation
     - TRENDY in management circles.

Here is a nice one liner for you: 

perl -pi.bak -e 's/something/otherthing/g' <FILE LIST>

[download]

That particular snippet does a search and replace on a list of files writing a backup to filename.bak in the process. Handy and 100s of times faster than doing the same in a Windows based editor.

cheers

tachyon

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In reply to Re: Re: Re: Should I learn Perl? by tachyon
in thread Should I learn Perl? by Anonymous Monk

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