[Lvlug] 1. awk: Maximum Record Size; 2. Converting nedit macro to awk or Ruby

[Theerasak Photha]

On 1/7/07, Randy Kramer <rhkramer at gmail.com> wrote:

> I think I'd prefer converting it to Ruby, as one of my goals is/has been to
> learn Ruby, but objects always seem to trip me up--I seem to be a procedural
> kind of guy.

It depends heavily on the project being done.

I wrote some RPG character generation and *management* (persistence
being the keyword here) software in Python, for tgta and now (the much
less cumbersome) Legendary Quest, so obviously objects win here. The
neat thing is I could just

If the text proc is a macro like activity---then a procedural language
might feel better. Of course, [gn]?awk is really neither... :)