Re: TCL with Perl or Python?

In article <0fc8ab2d-c22f-4aad-a7df-48930847e89b@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
<tclajr@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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Thanks for taking the time to write all of that and confirm what I
suspected... if what I am currently doing works, there is really no
reason to switch to Python just for the sake of switching.

Thank you very much.

There is indeed no benefit to a switch to Python
in the situation you have described.

Alan has written me privately. I'm going to take
the luxury and liberty of responding to a few items
here in public, in the hope that others can answer
better than I.

Alan wrote, "... obviously I'm not a programmer."
I have no idea how to parse that.

He explains, "... one gui basically is used just
to build the command line input that then gets sent
to a csh script that 'blends' the models together
and produces output ..." While this certainly
doesn't sound like something I'd create, if it works
for Alan and his employer, I see no need to change.

Alan tells, "... Perl's sort command does this
nicely. . . ." Tcl's [lsort] is equally capable--but
then, so is sort(1). As tempting as it might be to
show off elimination of an entire Perl process at
one whack, my professional opinion is that Alan and
his team are best off keeping what works for them.

Linux workstations host their processes. Their
production output is pure upper-case (!) text.

My guess is that Alan and his team have better
things to do with their talents than to re-implement
their systems in yet another language. While I remain
unsure what his original question was, I hope that
answer is in its neighborhood.
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