[wellylug] Programming Question

[Grant McLean]

Jethro Carr wrote:
> How can I use a variable for the input, ie:
> 
> system("touch <variable>");

In Perl:

   system("touch $variable");

Seriously, for the stage you're at, I think Perl would be an excellent 
choice of language.  Unlike 'C', you don't have to bother with the 
compilation phase - that's done for you when you run the program.  You 
also don't have to worry about allocating and freeing memory which is 
probably the biggest pain in C.

Far too much open source software is written in C or C++ simply because 
of silly biases against 'scripting' languages.

I'm not suggesting there's no place for C.  But restricting its use to 
low-level and performance critical routines, then tying them together 
with a higher level language can offer huge benefits in productivity, 
reliability and security.

Regards
Grant