Re: text equation

["L. S. Russell" <leslier@xxxxxxxxxx>]

What do you mean perl is not a high level language?
Compared to asm, or even C perl is a high level language, right up there with
RPG.
Perl will handle file input automatically;
open(FOO, './.bashrc');
@file_in = <FOO>;
close(FOO);
these three statements cause perl to read an entire file line by line into an
array. Now if that is not a high level function I have never seen one. By my
definition of a high level language (one which removes the programmer from 
menial
tasks such as handling file I/O, and provides math functions like abs(),
arctan(), sqrt() ...) perl fits the bill.
Yes, it is a high level language. Any language which provides built in routines
for doing math, and string functions is a high level language. Perl is much more
user friendly than C, perl even does its own garbage clean up.


Jim Langston wrote:

> Perl is a parser type language found on *nix systems.
> *nix refers to unix, linux, and the like.  The AS/400
> apparently also has a Perl interpreter.  It is not really
> a high level language, and is interpreted.
>
> According to another message on this thread, it seems
> that REXX is what you actually want to use in this case.
>
> Regards,
>
> Jim Langston
>
> Eric Panissard wrote:
>
> > Hi Jim,
> >
> > I don't know "Perl", what is it ? High level langage ?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Eric
>
> <SNIP>
>
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