← Back to context Comment by nine_k 4 years ago Would you consider doing string processing in C rather than in Awk or Tcl? 4 comments nine_k Reply raverbashing 4 years ago It is funny question because I think most languages get string processing right. Pascal gets it right.Except C. Koshkin 4 years ago But BSTR, too, is a C construct. jfk13 4 years ago In FORTRAN, thank you.(It was a long time ago, and there was no C compiler on our IBM/370...) anthk 4 years ago TCL is basically THE string processing language... because everything is a string :p.For short scripts, awk is nice, but most people would use Python nowadays, and die hard Unix greybeards will use Perl or TCL depending on the mood.
raverbashing 4 years ago It is funny question because I think most languages get string processing right. Pascal gets it right.Except C. Koshkin 4 years ago But BSTR, too, is a C construct.
jfk13 4 years ago In FORTRAN, thank you.(It was a long time ago, and there was no C compiler on our IBM/370...)
anthk 4 years ago TCL is basically THE string processing language... because everything is a string :p.For short scripts, awk is nice, but most people would use Python nowadays, and die hard Unix greybeards will use Perl or TCL depending on the mood.
It is funny question because I think most languages get string processing right. Pascal gets it right.
Except C.
But BSTR, too, is a C construct.
In FORTRAN, thank you.
(It was a long time ago, and there was no C compiler on our IBM/370...)
TCL is basically THE string processing language... because everything is a string :p.
For short scripts, awk is nice, but most people would use Python nowadays, and die hard Unix greybeards will use Perl or TCL depending on the mood.