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On 9/6/05, george huxtable <> wrote:
> It's likely that others on Nav-l have been faced with the same problem, and
> can give a bit of advice about their own favourite software.
I write most of my navigation software in Awk, C, and Perl. If I had
to choose one it would probably be C because I can do anything in C,
i.e., call OS routines, do graphics, run as a console tool or as an
application, etc. However C has a stiff learning curve.
Awk and Perl are great, fast, and free. Awk is very simple and
straightforward. There are books on Awk and it is very handy for text
processing as well. It comes with every Macintosh and on most Unix
systems.
Javascript is too limited for my taste - you can use the Windows
Scripting Host as has been mentioned, but it is all too much of a
"kludge" for me.
My vote goes to Awk.
Dan Allen
