From: "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>
Subject: Re: Advanced scripting languages (was: Learning Ada83)
Date: Fri, 3 Sep 2004 18:47:58 -0500
Date: 2004-09-03T18:47:58-05:00 [thread overview]
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"Bj�rn Persson" <spam-away@nowhere.nil> wrote in message
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Marius Amado Alves wrote:
>>> It would also be useful and practical to learn one of the advanced
>>> scripting languages like Perl or Python or Ruby....
>>
>> Wow, they're *advanced* scripting languages now!
>
>Sure, a *lot* more advanced than bat files. ;-)
That's funny, because if it's complicated enough that I can't write a batch
file to do it, I'll generally write it in Ada. Bat has If and Goto, and that
is enough for simple tasks. Beyond that, I want to be able to fix it and be
able to insure that it works...
Randy.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-09-03 23:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-09-02 14:23 Learning Ada83 Jim Gurtner
2004-09-02 14:55 ` Martin Dowie
2004-09-02 23:13 ` Nick Roberts
2004-09-03 15:38 ` Kevin Cline
2004-09-03 16:42 ` Marius Amado Alves
2004-09-03 17:57 ` Advanced scripting languages (was: Learning Ada83) Björn Persson
2004-09-03 23:47 ` Randy Brukardt [this message]
2004-09-05 3:28 ` Kevin Cline
2004-09-08 0:07 ` Randy Brukardt
2004-09-08 13:38 ` Ken O. Burtch
2004-09-06 2:42 ` Learning Ada83 Jim Gurtner
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