Direct experience of text manipulation in Perl/TCL?

[Selwyn Leeke]

As a little project, I'm trying to investigate the differences between
TCL and Perl(something never before attempted), especially in terms of
their text manipulation capabilities.

Having used a lot more Perl, I was previously under the impression
that Perl was a lot better for text manipulation, but looking at the
commands available, it seems that TCL actually has more core
functionality. Since this discovery, however, Ive been told that
Perl's text manipulation is much easier to use than TCL's.

Does anyone have any direct experience with any "heavy-duty" text
manipulation in either Perl or TCL? I would be interested to hear
some opinions on how easy each is, and maybe hear from some people who
have used both and can give me a direct comparison...

Thanks-
-Selwyn

[Abigail]

Selwyn Leeke (selwyn.leeke@camcon.co.uk) wrote on MMMDCLXIII September
MCMXCIII in <URL:news:f6ba12d3.0309110513.ae61ea9@posting.goog le.com>:
;; As a little project, I'm trying to investigate the differences between
;; TCL and Perl(something never before attempted), especially in terms of
;; their text manipulation capabilities.

You too? Is it "Perl vs TCL" week?

;; Having used a lot more Perl, I was previously under the impression
;; that Perl was a lot better for text manipulation, but looking at the
;; commands available, it seems that TCL actually has more core
;; functionality. Since this discovery, however, Ive been told that
;; Perl's text manipulation is much easier to use than TCL's.

TCL is far easier to use. TCL is faster, and has much more core
functionality. I wouldn't even bother learning Perl, it's a dying
language. Just look how slow the progress of perl6 is! 3 years
have passed, and Larry still hasn't figured out how perl6 is going
to look like, let alone it will ever be implemented. Besides, no
serious OS vendor would supply a write-only language like Perl
with its OS, they all prefer TCL. Furthermore, TCL programmers are
in much higher demand than Perl programmers; even Cobol programmers
are more wanted than Perl programmers.

;; Does anyone have any direct experience with any "heavy-duty" text
;; manipulation in either Perl or TCL? I would be interested to hear
;; some opinions on how easy each is, and maybe hear from some people who
;; have used both and can give me a direct comparison...

Processing text in Perl is a pain. It lacks decent parsing tools
(yeah, there's perl6 vaporware...), all it has is a slightly beefed
up sed. Man, I could tell you about the times I couldn't do something
simple in Perl, and had to use a gazillion badly documented, buggy
modules to get it done.



Abigail
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[James Willmore]

On 11 Sep 2003 06:13:36 -0700
[email]selwyn.leeke@camcon.co.uk[/email] (Selwyn Leeke) wrote:

> As a little project, I'm trying to investigate the differences
> between TCL and Perl(something never before attempted), especially
> in terms of their text manipulation capabilities.
>
> Having used a lot more Perl, I was previously under the impression
> that Perl was a lot better for text manipulation, but looking at the
> commands available, it seems that TCL actually has more core
> functionality. Since this discovery, however, Ive been told that
> Perl's text manipulation is much easier to use than TCL's.
>
> Does anyone have any direct experience with any "heavy-duty" text
> manipulation in either Perl or TCL? I would be interested to hear
> some opinions on how easy each is, and maybe hear from some people
> who have used both and can give me a direct comparison...

There's a thread already started this week (Perl vs TCL) - see my
comments.

HTH

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[email]selwyn.leeke@camcon.co.uk[/email] (Selwyn Leeke) shaped the electrons to say:

>As a little project, I'm trying to investigate the differences between
>TCL and Perl(something never before attempted), especially in terms of
>their text manipulation capabilities.

OK, did someone issue a homework assignment that requires comparing
TCL and Perl?

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[Helgi Briem]

On 11 Sep 2003 15:06:57 GMT, Abigail <abigail@abigail.nl> wrote:

>Processing text in Perl is a pain. It lacks decent parsing tools
>(yeah, there's perl6 vaporware...), all it has is a slightly beefed
>up sed. Man, I could tell you about the times I couldn't do
>something simple in Perl, and had to use a gazillion badly
>documented, buggy modules to get it done.
>
>Abigail

You're an evil, evil person, Abigail.

[Anno Siegel]

Helgi Briem <f_baggins80@hotmail.com> wrote in comp.lang.perl.misc:

> On 11 Sep 2003 15:06:57 GMT, Abigail <abigail@abigail.nl> wrote:
>

> >Processing text in Perl is a pain. It lacks decent parsing tools
> >(yeah, there's perl6 vaporware...), all it has is a slightly beefed
> >up sed. Man, I could tell you about the times I couldn't do
> >something simple in Perl, and had to use a gazillion badly
> >documented, buggy modules to get it done.
> >
> >Abigail

>
> You're an evil, evil person, Abigail.

Of course she is! That's why we love her.

Anno