use Perl

• Plus Plus (Score:1)

  by milardj (4452)

  When I program Java I'm *constantly* having to refer to javadoc (anyone ever have the joys of reading/writing to a file in java). When I program perl it's always "Well it would make sense for this to work" and happily Perl usually concurs.
  • Re:Plus Plus (Score:1)

    by milardj (4452)

    Hmmmm ... That sould probably be:

    When I program Perl it's always "Well it would make sense for this to work" and happily perl usually concurs.
  • Re:Plus Plus (Score:1)

    by darkerix (5640)

    Yeah...also I am running an experiment on Perl and see what happens when I use it for a couple of years. Will I find many ways to express my thoughts like in natural language? And, the more ways I can express my thoughts in different context, the more control and mastery will I have on that language?
• I'd say... (Score:1)

  by cog (4665)

  $ perl -lne 'while(/\b\w+?\b/cg){$_{$&}++}}{for(sort{$_{$a}$_{$b}}keys%_){print"$_ -> $_{$_}"}' your_entry|tail

  should -> 5
it -> 6
language -> 6
s -> 6
you -> 7
that -> 8
a -> 8
is -> 9
to -> 9
Perl -> 9

  I'd say you're on the right track :-)
  • Use the toolbox (Score:1)

    by Aristotle (5147)

    <your_entry tr -sc '[[:alnum:]]' '\n'|sort|uniq -c|sort -n|tail

    Looks nicer, too.
• After 4 years (Score:1)

  by darkerix (5640)

  After 4 years of experiments and many other languages, frameworks, systems down the line, including life changing experiences ... finally I have reached a more meaningful conclusion.
  
  Perl is still one of the best languages around. Not just because of the quality, performance, community and all the good stuff that makes a language great, but also because of the lack of bull shit.
  
  There are many stuff in Perl that makes the ultimate sense. Without explanation (too much to explain) I will just list what I