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Subject: 
Re: Perl
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lugnet.cad
Date: 
Tue, 3 Jun 2003 10:59:11 GMT
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In lugnet.cad, Lester Witter wrote:
> > > 
> > > OK, sounds like, at least initially, the SDK source would only go to a few
> > > people for the express purpose of porting the SDK to other platforms.  If
> > > it's the case that LEGO doesn't want the whole world to have access to the
> > > SDK, then I'm curious what it means for ports to non-compiled languages
> > > like Perl and Python.
> 
> 
> In the discusion about LTX, Perl has been mentioned. How would you envsion using
> Perl in the LEGO CAD (or other LEGO) environment? I have been using Perl for
> serveral years at work (doing image processing) and might do some hobby
> programming.
> 
> Lester

The LDraw file format is text based and human redable, so it would be a snap to
apply perl to it.  My program LPub started out as a perl script that broke the
DAT files down into step dats, ran them through L3P and then post processed the
results.

Kevin



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(...) In the discusion about LTX, Perl has been mentioned. How would you envsion using Perl in the LEGO CAD (or other LEGO) environment? I have been using Perl for serveral years at work (doing image processing) and might do some hobby programming. (...) (23 years ago, 3-Jun-03, to lugnet.cad)

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