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On 6/29/2015 5:00 PM, Martin Gregorie wrote:
> 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
I believe you that it may not be a perfect technical fit.
But it seems to be a common choice.
And actual popularity of tools do have an impact no matter
how well founded or not the popularity is.
Arne
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