What Was Your First Programming Language?

[Paul Berger (Canada)]

(07-08-2015 07:27 PM)Thomas Klemm Wrote:  

(07-08-2015 06:50 PM)Paul Berger (Canada) Wrote:  Part of my job involves extracting information from massive log files, and I can't think of anything better than PERL for a job like that

This can be done very elegantly with Python using generators as a pipeline:
Generator Tricks for Systems Programmers
Presentation Slides (PDF)

Cheers
Thomas

Yeah probably but I have a working knowledge of PERL and it does the job.