Re: Perl's superior text parsing power

2009-09-06 Thread Raymond Wan
Hi Dave, Dave Tang wrote: explain to me the answer. My motivation for this question is primarily due to interest and if someday someone asks me how is Perl good for biology (most biological data is stored as flat files). As others have said, it is perhaps because Perl got into it first tha

Re: Perl's superior text parsing power

2009-09-03 Thread Jenda Krynicky
From: "Shawn H. Corey" > Dave Tang wrote: > > I wanted to ask why is Perl, in comparison to other programming > > languages, so powerful in text processing? > > Undoubtedly, when it was written, Perl was the most powerful text > processing language available. This is no longer the case (thanks

Re: Perl's superior text parsing power

2009-09-02 Thread Jeff Pang
?? "Shawn H. Corey" ? Dave Tang wrote: I wanted to ask why is Perl, in comparison to other programming languages, so powerful in text processing? Undoubtedly, when it was written, Perl was the most powerful text processing language available. This is no longer the case (thanks largely t

Re: Perl's superior text parsing power

2009-09-02 Thread Shlomi Fish
On Thursday 03 September 2009 06:44:40 Uri Guttman wrote: > > "SHC" == Shawn H Corey writes: > > SHC> Dave Tang wrote: > >> I wanted to ask why is Perl, in comparison to other programming > >> languages, so powerful in text processing? > > SHC> Undoubtedly, when it was written, Perl

Re: Perl's superior text parsing power

2009-09-02 Thread Chas. Owens
On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 23:20, Shawn H. Corey wrote: > Dave Tang wrote: >> >> I wanted to ask why is Perl, in comparison to other programming languages, >> so powerful in text processing? > > Undoubtedly, when it was written, Perl was the most powerful text processing > language available.  This is

Re: Perl's superior text parsing power

2009-09-02 Thread Chas. Owens
On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 21:39, Dave Tang wrote: > Hi everybody, > > I constantly read about Perl's powerful regular expression matching and > string manipulation operators, and how it is superior to other programming > languages in this aspect. snip * Regexes are first class citizens in Perl, in o

Re: Perl's superior text parsing power

2009-09-02 Thread Uri Guttman
> "SHC" == Shawn H Corey writes: SHC> Dave Tang wrote: >> I wanted to ask why is Perl, in comparison to other programming >> languages, so powerful in text processing? SHC> Undoubtedly, when it was written, Perl was the most powerful text SHC> processing language available. This i

Re: Perl's superior text parsing power

2009-09-02 Thread Dave Tang
On Thu, 03 Sep 2009 13:18:44 +1000, Uri Guttman wrote: "TB" == Tim Bowden writes: TB> On Thu, 2009-09-03 at 11:39 +1000, Dave Tang wrote: >> I wanted to ask why is Perl, in comparison to other programming >> languages, so powerful in text processing? I read >> http://en.wikipedia.

Re: Perl's superior text parsing power

2009-09-02 Thread Shawn H. Corey
Dave Tang wrote: I wanted to ask why is Perl, in comparison to other programming languages, so powerful in text processing? Undoubtedly, when it was written, Perl was the most powerful text processing language available. This is no longer the case (thanks largely to Perl :). Today's scripti

Re: Perl's superior text parsing power

2009-09-02 Thread Uri Guttman
> "TB" == Tim Bowden writes: TB> On Thu, 2009-09-03 at 11:39 +1000, Dave Tang wrote: >> I wanted to ask why is Perl, in comparison to other programming >> languages, so powerful in text processing? I read >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perl#Features, and that doesn't really >> exp

Re: Perl's superior text parsing power

2009-09-02 Thread Tim Bowden
On Thu, 2009-09-03 at 11:39 +1000, Dave Tang wrote: > Hi everybody, > > I constantly read about Perl's powerful regular expression matching and > string manipulation operators, and how it is superior to other programming > languages in this aspect. > > Furthermore, I read this in the wikipedi

Perl's superior text parsing power

2009-09-02 Thread Dave Tang
Hi everybody, I constantly read about Perl's powerful regular expression matching and string manipulation operators, and how it is superior to other programming languages in this aspect. Furthermore, I read this in the wikipedia entry of Perl: "The language provides powerful text processin