RE: :) What you can't do in java you can do in perl

Jared - I wasn't thinking of specific tasks and how they would be accomplished in each language. Actually that is the very point where Perl excels. But I don't see many large applications written in Perl. For example, suppose your management was creating a development group with several dozen developers and they were going to spend 6 months or a year building a large application, and then the company was hoping to use and maintain this application for many years into the future. Now many other issues are involved, like availability of tools like IDEs and webservers, availability of programmers experienced in the language chosen, etc. I think that if I pressed hard for Perl in that situation, I might not be taken seriously. On the other hand, writing DBA utilities mostly for my own use is a great situation for Perl.

Dennis Williams
DBA
Lifetouch, Inc.

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From: Jared Still [mailto:jkstill_at_gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 2004 12:33 PM To: DENNIS WILLIAMS
Cc: oracle-l_at_freelists.org
Subject: Re: :) What you can't do in java you can do in perl

On Wed, 29 Sep 2004 08:55:48 -0500, DENNIS WILLIAMS <dwilliams_at_lifetouch.com> wrote:

> On the other hand, I wouldn't attempt some Java taskswith Perl.

Hi Dennis,

Anything in particular. Perl is quite simply, an amazing powerful language with a huge set of modules. Can't imagine what you could do in Java that wouldn't probably be easier in Perl.

Then again, I'm biased. :)

Yes, I have done a little Java, also had some training from Sun.

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