Anyone care to give me the cliff notes as to why one would want to use perl vs python? Unix Solaris over here. Have capability to run both perl and python and bash/ksh and others.
Now what I am interested in using unix and its programs for large amounts of data, sql (done in Unix SAS)...etc. Lots of cleansing, analytics, algorithms to do research, etc.
I am more of a analytics kind'a worker than IT, but I understand all the IT'ness of these programs (I learned C++ and java in school, so this object based stuff is familiar to me, though sql, sas and data pull/shape/analyze tools are more my cupp'a tea though). I want to make sure I don't miss leveraging what I could use to make some great data finding, cleanse, etc....
I have learned a couple python scripts here (thanks to you all) and am now wondering, what's the whole N of these languages as folks might use for sql, analytics, data pull, extract, etc....
Just freeform thought, it's Friday - keep it light, fun! Take care!
One advantage of Perl is that it is part of the standard installation of Solaris. It means that there are more scripts/one-liners on unix.com in Perl that might help solve problems you might encounter.
Another thing is what I mentioned in the last sentence: one-liners. Perl can be used as a more powerful replacement for any text manipulation tool in Unix (grep, awk, sed,...). As far as I know it is not possible with Python.
If you are using SAS already you are probably better off continuing to use that. There almost nothing SAS cannot do, whatever data you throw at it. It sounds like you have big data and even if you do want to step away from SAS, you would probably want to lean towards Python, because it appeals to the high performance community and are more likely to get help there.
If you are using SAS already you are probably better off continuing to use that. There almost nothing SAS cannot do, whatever data you throw at it. It sounds like you have big data and even if you do want to step away from SAS, you would probably want to lean towards Python, because it appeals to the high performance community and are more likely to get help there.
I agree! I've been using SAS Windows for years, now after learning how to run it on unix, I've a whole new world of "bag'a tricks" that I can throw at these data! How on earth have I been living all these years not leveraging unix with SAS?! Python's some great cleansing abilities! Geeezzzzz, I'm enlightened folks. This is a groundbreaking way to see data on a unix box.....I know this is nothin new to you all
Ken Thomson, Denis Ritchie, et al....hats off to you all and this community!
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reboot-mb8600/reboot-mb8600.py at master . j4m3z0r/reboot-mb8600 . GitHub
#!/usr/bin/python
'''
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