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From: cjeffery@cs.arizona.edu (Clinton Jeffery)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: Which to use :- Perl, Python, Icon, ... ?
Message-ID: <1073@caslon.cs.arizona.edu>
Date: 7 Mar 91 19:59:48 GMT
References: <BEVAN.91Mar5123224@tiger.cs.man.ac.uk>
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Organization: U of Arizona CS Dept, Tucson
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From article <BEVAN.91Mar5123224@tiger.cs.man.ac.uk>, by bevan@cs.man.ac.uk (Stephen J Bevan):
> In the past I've written various programs to extract information from
> files...[deletions] I'd like to move to a single language for doing
> these sort of tasks. The likely contenders for this seem to be Perl,
> Python and Icon. I was wondering if anybody has experiences with them
> that they'd like to share?

Would someone please post or e-mail me a reference for Python?

Generally, my guess is that you would find Icon better for complex
string analysis tasks that don't fit into neat regular expressions,
or for programs that use extracted information in complex ways.
Perl looks better for the jobs that it was designed to handle.

<Insert admitted Icon bias here.>
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