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Re: Recommendation for a good Android programming book?

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On Mon, 29 Jun 2015 14:18:15 -0400, Arne Vajhøj wrote:

> On 6/29/2015 2:08 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>> On 6/29/2015 11:01 AM, Martin Gregorie wrote:
>>> On Mon, 29 Jun 2015 07:35:50 -0400, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>>>> I have never seen anything for awk nor can I google anything.
>>>>
>>> Strange, since its a standard file manipulation scripting tool for
>>> UNIX/
>>> Linux but I notice that its supported by SlickEdit.
>>
>> I think AWK is a bit too old fashioned for the Eclipse crowd.
>>
>> I believe Python would be used for some of that work.
>>
>> Sure - it is not as specialized.
>>
>> But I know a lot of scripting guys that have switched to Python for the
>> majority of their work.
> 
> Public example:
> 
> http://fylz.com/awk-or-python
>
Interesting, and fair comment in its comparison of C and Python, except 
for one point: if you're parsing a file (could be a configuration file) 
and want to find and report each error in it by giving a line number and 
error text, I don't think that exceptions help a lot with simplifying the 
error handling code, though of course, if you're allowed to stop after 
the first error that using a try..catch structure makes life a lot easier.
 
However, I thought his comparison of Awk and Python missed the point 
quite badly in that much of the power of Awk is provided by not having to 
bother about reading the file, splitting it into words, worrying about 
writing code that does the same as  'next' or 'nextfile' verbs. IIRC 
you'd also have to add code to handle line selection in Python to handle 
the selection logic implied in awk by simply writing a 

  /regex/ { action } 

pair. The same can be said about RPG3 (shudder) or any number of 4GL 
report generators.

I don't particularly dislike Python: IMO its preferable to Perl, but if 
you're ripping a log or other sequential text file apart, I think awk 
beats both of those hands down. And, when it comes to OO programming, I 
much prefer Java to Python



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  Re: Recommendation for a good Android programming book? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2015-05-21 20:30 -0400
  Re: Recommendation for a good Android programming book? e.d.programmer@gmail.com - 2015-05-22 08:16 -0700
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      Re: Recommendation for a good Android programming book? Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2015-05-26 10:15 +0000
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                Re: Recommendation for a good Android programming book? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2015-06-03 21:26 -0400
                Re: Recommendation for a good Android programming book? Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2015-06-04 21:00 +0000
                Re: Recommendation for a good Android programming book? Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2015-06-05 08:06 -0400
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                Re: Recommendation for a good Android programming book? e.d.programmer@gmail.com - 2015-06-08 07:39 -0700
                Re: Recommendation for a good Android programming book? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2015-06-28 21:42 -0400
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                Re: Recommendation for a good Android programming book? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2015-06-29 07:35 -0400
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                Re: Recommendation for a good Android programming book? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2015-06-29 14:08 -0400
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