<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 5:34 AM, A J Stiles <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:asterisk_list@earthshod.co.uk">asterisk_list@earthshod.co.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="im">Just learn Perl or Python instead. Both these interpreters are installed by</div>
default on every modern Linux system. Python is for the young and trendy,<br>
and I can't get to grips with it myself. Perl is the rusty old Ford Transit<br>
van of programming languages: it may not be much to look at, but it gets the<br>
job done. And its regular expression handling is second to none.<br>
<div class="im"><br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>While I agree that the Ford Transit is a great utility vehicle, I believe that you are referring to Ruby and not Python. ;-)</div><div><br></div>
<div>-M</div></div>