EDI in linux (everone PLEASE read)

[Ben Duncan]

Although everone has a favorite language. when designing such a 
system, one must compare cababilties,
ease of programming, acceptance, and extensiability.

Perl, being a favorite of many people, I find lacking in handling 
easily, the "3" dimension strings and arrays that would be
required. Python seems to handle these strings and file access in a 
more straight forward (ok GROUP everone chime in here,
you want hurt my feelings on pro's and con's of languagues to use).

C would get the job down, but be take a lot of codeing. C++, I have 
absolutely NO CLUE, as well as JAVA, since I find
Object Oriented Programming - strange -.

GNU/COBOL would work because COBOL is designed to manipulate DATA in 
that fashion ( or as an alternative
KOBOL from The Kompany - which is a Commercial COBOL compiler, but 
priced at $40 USD - which is
within my budget).

Interrupted languages such as Perl, Python, Tk/Tcl, would probably get 
slow in having to deal with such large
characters strings, as used in EDI ...

But, then thats' why I belong to this group. Even with 26 Years 
experience in "Data Processing", I find input from
this group can help make these decisions, such as what would be the 
best langauge to use, extremely valuable.

mpdickens wrote:
> Hi Ben!
> 
> Yeah, almost all accounting/mrp packages can throw up data as comma 
> delimited... Regarding languages for edi, I like perl... For several
> reasons:

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