[vdr] Re: Is perl a better future for epg2timers.cxx?

[Karsten Mueller <kmu@ratio.de>]

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On Thursday 21 November 2002 23:00, Carsten Koch wrote:
> Wiljo Heinen (the author of the excellent PVAstrumento tool) is
> working on an epg2timers.cxx translation to perl.
>
> I believe that perl might actually be better suited for the job
> than C++ (while C++ is much more readable - at least to my eyes).
>
> It may be easier to put more flexibility and additional features
> into epg2timers once it is rewritten in perl.
>
> I'll talk to Wiljo and see if he wants to take over maintenance
> of my epg2timers package, read the vdr mailing list, answer
> enquiries and make updates publicly available.
> In that case, I'd vote for continuing epg2timers in perl.
> How does the VDR community feel about that?
> Any votes for or against it?
>
> Carsten.

I absolutely vote for Perl. Since what epg2timers does, parsing weird texts 
(at least for human eyes) and converting it into something more readable or in 
this case even more useful, Perl is the first choice. RegEx's and parsers in C(++) 
are IMHO a pain in the *ss to do, so I very often fall back to Perl. Once understood
it's a lovely language at least (but not only) for jobs like these :)

JM2¢


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Karsten Mueller
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RATIO Entwicklungen GmbH
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Email: mailto:kmu@ratio.de
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