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Gemini PDA - Android / Apps: Text editing
« on: June 15, 2018, 11:46:46 am »
I know some Perl, too [fx: glances over to Camel book on shelf], but I've been lucky enough not to have to use it in anger very much.
I find awk just the right size for text wrangling — small enough to remember and understand all of it even when using it occasionally, while Perl needs more looking-up and trial-and-error.
(For proper coding, I used C, then Java, and most recently Kotlin. I'd love to be able to write and compile Kotlin on my Gemini itself, and to transfer and run Java/Kotlin programs I've written elsewhere. But it seems there's little chance of that. )
I find awk just the right size for text wrangling — small enough to remember and understand all of it even when using it occasionally, while Perl needs more looking-up and trial-and-error.
(For proper coding, I used C, then Java, and most recently Kotlin. I'd love to be able to write and compile Kotlin on my Gemini itself, and to transfer and run Java/Kotlin programs I've written elsewhere. But it seems there's little chance of that. )