Christian Frisson wrote: > As I'm a little picky on filenames aesthetics, my next step is to translate this > script into another language, in order to be able to parse HTML files to get > proper filenames included therein. I've been hesitating between Perl and Python > (as Frank Barknecht advised me before), because both are multi-platform and can > handle audio files, as required for the final project. Which one would best > suit? I've been programming easy student software in C/C++, if it can help. Hooboy... the subject of many holy wars, is Perl vs Python. While my experience is with Perl only, to me, it really seems to 6 of one and half a dozen of the other. They are both excellent choices for scripting. If you are already familiar with the C/C++ syntax, Perl may have the slight edge for you since it uses much of the same operators and syntax. Perl, however, has a reputation for becoming executable line noise. Python, on the other hand, is more elegant and easier to read (it has the reputation of being executable pseudo-code), and is more 'object-oriented' than Perl (although Perl does support object-oriented programming also, in kind of a funky loose spirited way). I'd say take a look at both languages and try to write something simple first and see which one feels better for you.
