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Received: by cheltenham.cs.arizona.edu; Tue, 10 Oct 1995 09:45:37 MST
Date: Tue, 10 Oct 95 00:30 CDT
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From: gep2@computek.net
Subject: More on PERL etc.
To: icon-group@cs.arizona.edu
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>While I hate making the comparison (between Visual Basic and HyperCard), I
must say that for somethings that Perl would typically be considered ideal
for (certain text processing uses, for instance)
I wouldn't consider Perl "ideal" for ANY kind of text processing things I could
imagine. Comparing Perl to something like Icon or SNOBOL4, I can't see how Perl
would even stand a -prayer-.
>I've found HyperTalk and AppleScript to be better languages for.
Can you suggest ANYTHING that they're better at, in terms of text processing,
than either SNOBOL4 or Icon? Perl is a POOR second to either one, and I doubt
that HyperTalk or AppleScript are any more competitive.
>Thus conceptually Visual Basic might be appropriate for some of the typical
uses of Perl, if it has a degree of text processing capability comparable to
HyperTalk's. It didn't last I checked, but then, maybe I wasn't looking that
hard (despite it's high learning curve, it's still more difficult to learn than
HyperCard).
Visual Basic is, also, pathetic for text processing compared to anything like
the languages we're all so indebted to Ralph Griswold for!
Jeez, I can hardly believe that we're even carrying on such a ludicrous
discussion here, in the Icon group, where presumably we all KNOW better than to
waste our time trying to even THINK about doing text processing with junk like
Perl, or HyperCard, or AppleScript. I mean, this isn't exactly like a dumb
general programming conference where people could claim ignorance of Icon or
SNOBOL4 or anything.
Gordon Peterson
http://www.computek.net/public/gep2/