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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Perl Vs Python Post 302397120 by Neo on Sunday 21st of February 2010 02:44:16 AM
Old 02-21-2010
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Originally Posted by achak01
actually, currently we are using shell and awk. but we want to shift it. so pls tell me which will be best suited to replace awk and shell ?
Many years ago I preferred KSH and tools like awk.

Then I used used to prefer Perl for test processing and raved about Perl with passion, that was over 10 year ago.

But since most of my work involves the web, I have shifted to PHP, because PHP does great text processing and so much more.

If PHP is not an option for you, then I recommend Perl for processing text.

PS: I have never really programmed in Python, but I have heard great things about it. The choice is really what you like and what works for you, not what we like and not what others like.

Some guys love Bash, others love Perl, others love PHP.. another might love Python. It's really up to you, not up to us to debate and make a decision like this for you.
 

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