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  Re: Checked Exceptions in Java Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2016-02-06 20:02 +0000
    Re: Checked Exceptions in Java ruben <ceo@iran.gov> - 2016-02-06 20:41 +0000
      Re: Checked Exceptions in Java Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2016-02-06 22:14 +0000

#33631 — Re: Checked Exceptions in Java

On Sat, 06 Feb 2016 16:12:28 +0000, Stefan Ram wrote:

>   Sometimes, a »quick and dirty« program that does not care for any
>   problems that might arise when some resource is not available already
>   can solve a problem when the programmer himself is the only user (or
>   in similar situations) with 1 % of the effort it would take to turn it
>   into a professional or library-grade program (which would even include
>   writing documentation). But then, Java might not be intended for such
>   tasks, there is Perl.
> 
I think this is right. and that there are better tools than Perl for 
this. 

As Linux/UNIX programmer I use grep, gawk or less in preference to Perl. 
The exact one chosen would depend on what was needed to be done. [1]

I'm unsure what a Windows user's weapons of choice would be - Perl or 
Visual BASIC?

[1] The last job of this type I did was when I needed a list of names as 
'Firstname SURNAME and was handed an Excel spreadsheet containing the 
names in a single column as 'SURNAME Firstname'. I first saved the 
spreadsheet as a CSV file and used gawk to pull out the name column, 
split it on spaces, swap the elements and write it to a second file.


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#33633

On Sat, 06 Feb 2016 20:02:42 +0000, Martin Gregorie wrote:

> I'm unsure what a Windows user's weapons of choice would be - Perl or
> Visual BASIC?

are you implying that Perl is only a valid choice to use in MS Windows, 
and not Linux.  Using (G)awk instead of Perl for most tasks shows 
ignorance, and not experience.   The experience of most GNU programmers 
is to use a full arsenal of tools available, especially and including 
Perl....100%.

So speak for yourself.

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#33635

On Sat, 06 Feb 2016 20:41:41 +0000, ruben wrote:

> On Sat, 06 Feb 2016 20:02:42 +0000, Martin Gregorie wrote:
> 
>> I'm unsure what a Windows user's weapons of choice would be - Perl or
>> Visual BASIC?
> 
> are you implying that Perl is only a valid choice to use in MS Windows,
> and not Linux.  Using (G)awk instead of Perl for most tasks shows
> ignorance, and not experience.   The experience of most GNU programmers
> is to use a full arsenal of tools available, especially and including
> Perl....100%.
> 
> So speak for yourself.
 
I was speaking for myself. If you'd read what I wrote rather more 
carefully you'd have seen that.


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