Re: AN OLD PROGRAMMER NEEDS ADVICE

From: Gawnsoft (xlucid_at_users.sourceforge.remove.this.antispam.net)
Date: 04/24/04 

Date: Sat, 24 Apr 2004 04:17:29 +0100

On 23 Apr 2004 20:33:32 GMT, bazad <nobody@noreply.not> wrote (more or
less):

>In article <YVdic.28997$635.5234@nwrdny03.gnilink.net>, Thomas G. Marshall wrote:
>> Whichever way you choose to go, I would strongly suggest that you
>> program using an object oriented paradigm.
>
>How many people in this group are so ignorant?
>
>People offer Perl, Ruby, OO... Can't you read? Can't you understand
>that the man is old. All he needs is to accomplish a rather simple
>programming task in windows.

Actually, he specifically says he doesn't want to bother with windows.

He just wants to open text files and do a bit of processing on them.

Ruby is an excellent choice for writing console apps to process text
in files on the Windows platform.

It's a language that was designed for the task.

Cheers,
   Euan
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