Class Journal Week 4
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- Based on what you read here, would you consider sed to be a language? Why or why not?
- I wouldn't consider sed so much a language as much as it is a function in Bash. Sed takes in an input and gives an output depending on what parameters you've given it. It allows certain parameters and will error on incorrect parameters. Outputs from sed can be fed as an input into another sed. In thus, it seems to act to me more like a function of a language than a language itself. Sed cannot really be used to do much else other than text conversion - replacing a characters or series of characters with other characters, and editing a file. A programming language can allow the user to perform a wide variety of operations on many different inputs, using different methods and functions.
- Of the languages that are skimmed in these sections, which one (in the brief exposure this article gives) appeals to you the most, and why? (yes, we are also expecting the biology majors to answer this—no obligation to fully understand the languages nor examples; just share what you like about what you see)
- While my first reaction was to answer this question with "Javascript", on further inspection, I think that Python appeals to me the most. While I am very comfortable with Javascript and know it well, Python appeals to me as a language due to its use in many systems and its potential to be used in many applications, both web and otherwise. The fact that Python can serve as a wrapper for other languages also intrigues me, as it indicates a depth to the language that I haven't observed in other languages that I've explored.
- Would you agree that coders are “angry?” Are biologists “angry” too? Why do you think so? (quid pro quo—computer scientists should answer this also, to the degree that you know biology and biologists)
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