On Sun, 17 May 2009 06:54:56 -0700
Matt Graham <
danceswithcrows@usa.net> wrote:
> After a long battle with technology, Bryan O'Neal wrote:
> > While we are on the subject, excluding writing everything in bash, what is
> > the best way for various programs (pick your language) to access command
> > line tools and parse the output?
IMO, perl is the absolute best language for munging data, I have been a daily
user of perl for over 11 years now. And I have done some amazing things with
perl. Also CPAN has over 5000 perl modules to make things easier.
>
> Every language I've seen implements popen() somewhere. That's a good way to
> use external tools that output text.
>
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