Re: Learn a Variety of Languages . . . . . . . (was: Re: [tlug] Re: Bourne Shell is the most appropriate scripting language)

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@example.com>]

Nguyen Vu Hung writes:

 > Ruby is a made-in-Japan software so I think it may dominate Python on
 > Japanese text processing.

Unlikely.  Ruby may be as good, but the Python developers put a huge
amount of effort into getting their Unicode processing right, and they
have excellent codecs for all of the Japanese encodings.  They have
quite efficient regexes for Unicode, which is important (I'm not
saying that Perl or Ruby don't, just that I know that Python has done
a good job on that).

Note that on Linux you can do a lot of processing with iconv and grep
in shell scripts.