Re: [Nolug] language of choice?

Nice, I like that! If I were in the server business, you folks would blow
my socks off, no doubt.

Again, my mission with perl is slicing and dicing large datasets into sql
for sane retrieves. I also use perl to open 3270 sessions with zOS
mainframes and screen scrape data into sql for sane retrieves (detonation
#1). Which means my second language of "choice" is COBOL and Eztrieve
(detonation #2). Its not at all my choice because I am a victim of my
industry and enterprise environment.

And by the way, when I run perl it's ActiveState Komodo in w32 (detonation
#3). Go easy guys, I'm a victim of industry, LOL....

If I had my way, it would be gentoo with most of the languages previously
mentioned. Mostly perl though...

I am now running for the swamp.

:-D

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John Fox
On August 22, 2013 1:17:10 PM Jess Planck <jesse.planck@gmail.com> wrote:
> Did it actually take more than 24 hours before shots got taken. ;P
> Well you'll get none of that from me because a giant toolbox of scripty 
> whoop-a$$ is why I'm on this list in the first place. It's php driving my 
> sites that have CSS complied with compass using some custom python that 
> gets pushed out by lame hand coded bash scripts. Still want to play with 
> capistrano or puppet for deploys and that javascript knowledge has come in 
> mighty handy for the new hot weird ideas people are having. I came from 
> perl, but these days I only mess with other-people's-perl. Still it's good 
> to know a little about what this stuff is doing. And nice to recognize 
> enough with C(++)(Obj-) too.
> I always consider myself - no rockstar / still learning. Sometimes I wish I 
> could approach human language with as much enthusiasm, but I guess machines 
> are easier to deal with.
>
> Jess
>
> On Aug 22, 2013, at 7:36 AM, Jerry Wilborn <jerrywilborn@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Throwing down the gauntlet(!): I believe I could port any Perl parsing 
> script to PHP that would best it in simplicity and speed.  One (slightly 
> off topic) example is I've ported https://code.google.com/p/snmp-session/ 
> to PHP and the speed was significantly increased (doubled) on similar hardware.
> > That said, I'm reminded of the phrase "when your only tool is a hammer, 
> everything looks like a nail."  I think all of the languages have their 
> advantages; PHP just seems to have so many more. ;)
> > Jerry Wilborn
> > jerrywilborn@gmail.com
> >
> > On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 12:46 PM, John Fox <john@foxfin.net> wrote:
> > #! /usr/bin/perl.
> > I work in the financial industry, thus run ETLs on massive text files 
> from mainframe datasets.
> > Larry Wall rocks........
> > ----
> > John Fox
> >
> >
> > On August 20, 2013 9:41:21 PM Joey Kelly <joey@joeykelly.net> wrote:
> > I started out with PHP, then switched to Perl some years back, after
> > which my skills and understanding blossomed.
> > That's me... what about you? Friends tell me that folks are choosing PHP
> > less, now that Ruby and node.js are in town. What are your opinions of
> > those, and of Java? I'm not even mentioning languages that run on That
> > Other Operating System, because this is a family-oriented list.
> >
> > --
> > Joey Kelly
> > Minister of the Gospel and Linux Consultant
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