It's a UNIX system, I know this...
wanteded to teik a brake from internets, but i addictd.
Kinda started playing around with Perl when I came home, and in the end rewrote my Bourne shell script for making tweets, adding interactive mode, which I so longed for, because I always would forget the names of userpics.
Here it is: http://www.s010.lv/files/addtweet.plx.
Perl is... NICE *_* It's a great pleasure to code in it. You may have heard that Perl's motto is There is more than one way to do it -- this matrializes in that you have almost no restrictions -- instead of thinking about the language's syntax, you can concentrate on solving the problem. You don't write Perl, Perl flows from your hands.
It has two advantages against Python: it is distributed in base install of almost all modern UNIXen; it's faster than Python.
And I dunno, I just seem to like Perl better.
Another great language from UNIX land is Awk -- it's a language that was specifically designed for text processing. I can't imagine my life without this great tool now. It's syntax is very similar to C, but much more human-friendly.
For example, I commented out the debug print statements in the above script with the following command:
awk '/^print[ ]".*/ { print "# " $0; next } { print $0 }' < addtweet.plx > newaddtweet.plx
Another example: I had to make a Python dictionary at work, it was too big to do manually (or maybe I was too lazy...), I had a file with the variable descriptions and names in the following form
Var1 long description blablabla = var1
So I easily transformed it to
"var1" : "", # Var1 long description blablabla
with an awk script like
BEGIN {
FS = " = "
}
/^$/
{
next
}
{
print "\"" $2 "\" : \"\", # " $1
}
An awesome tool I tell you. I read that Bourne shell and awk are the only two scripting languages that are always present on any UNIX system.
Kinda started playing around with Perl when I came home, and in the end rewrote my Bourne shell script for making tweets, adding interactive mode, which I so longed for, because I always would forget the names of userpics.
Here it is: http://www.s010.lv/files/addtweet.plx.
Perl is... NICE *_* It's a great pleasure to code in it. You may have heard that Perl's motto is There is more than one way to do it -- this matrializes in that you have almost no restrictions -- instead of thinking about the language's syntax, you can concentrate on solving the problem. You don't write Perl, Perl flows from your hands.
It has two advantages against Python: it is distributed in base install of almost all modern UNIXen; it's faster than Python.
And I dunno, I just seem to like Perl better.
Another great language from UNIX land is Awk -- it's a language that was specifically designed for text processing. I can't imagine my life without this great tool now. It's syntax is very similar to C, but much more human-friendly.
For example, I commented out the debug print statements in the above script with the following command:
awk '/^print[ ]".*/ { print "# " $0; next } { print $0 }' < addtweet.plx > newaddtweet.plx
Another example: I had to make a Python dictionary at work, it was too big to do manually (or maybe I was too lazy...), I had a file with the variable descriptions and names in the following form
Var1 long description blablabla = var1
So I easily transformed it to
"var1" : "", # Var1 long description blablabla
with an awk script like
BEGIN {
FS = " = "
}
/^$/
{
next
}
{
print "\"" $2 "\" : \"\", # " $1
}
An awesome tool I tell you. I read that Bourne shell and awk are the only two scripting languages that are always present on any UNIX system.