[sdiy] [OT] Scripting languages /// Was: testing transistor pairs

[Seb Francis]

>> Perl ;-)
> Hear Hear!
>
> Perl is one of the most useful tools in my kit. I'd lump it in there 
> with C and Matlab as things that every EE ought to have some 
> familiarity with. A couple years back John Cooley had this to say:
>
> "And one of the most embarrassing problems I've found at client sites 
> is when some of their key engineers on a troubled project really don't 
> know Perl." 
> http://www.eetimes.com/news/design/columns/industry_gadfly/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=17407920 
>
>
> If you know some Perl you can tear apart any text file thrown at you, 
> rearrange it, analyze it and do useful things with the results. I've 
> even used it for things like computing wavetables and running simple 
> discrete-time simulations. It's fast, flexible and very forgiving.
>
> The downside is that it's a very rich language and although easy to 
> start, difficult to master. I've been using it for five or six years 
> and still consider myself a n00b.
>

Or if Perl's a bit too much, TCL's quite easy to pickup, and a similarly 
useful general purpose scripting language.

Seb