use Perl

• Not alone anymore!!! (Score:2)

  by darobin (1316)

  Hey, cool, I'm not alone anymore!!! I've been saying that EcmaScript (formerly known as JavaScript) is actually a pretty decent language if you use it properly and have a good implementation (say, the Mozilla engine that also powers Adobe's SVG viewer).

  I wrote a bunch of large GUI apps in EcmaScript and quite frankly it was all clean and well done, and worked really well. For sure, I would have preferred it to be Perl but overall I can't say that it made much of a difference.

  Now the problem i

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  -- Robin Berjon [berjon.com]
  • Re:Not alone anymore!!! (Score:2)

    by jdavidb (1361)

    Doing it properly has to include "using it for proper purposes." I've seen way too many [perl.org] simple form-based applications that failed to work for me because they tried to do something special with JavaScript when a straightforward, copy out of a textbook CGI program should have been used.

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    J. David works really hard, has a passion for writing good software, and knows many of the world's best Perl programmers
• quick hacks can work (Score:1)

  by TeeJay (2309)

  .. and sometimes that is what matters most.
  
  I have used a load of misclaneous tools that are both proprtoatary and open source and they could all be quick hacks as long as I can get the job done.
  
  Of course if they don't get the job done then shoddy workmanship is adding insult to injury.
  
  The thing is most people don't look under the bonnet as it were, until the car has stopped. Thats why matts script archive was so popular.
  
  Unfortunately it means re-working all of freshmeat to remove the bad perl now that N

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  @JAPH = qw(Hacker Perl Another Just);
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• Easy to use tools (Score:1)

  by IlyaM (2933)

  No wonder that easy to use tools and languages like Perl, PHP and JavaScript attract inexpreenced programmers. Have you ever seen web designer programming in C++ or in Java for example? But many of them are capable of writting some Perl. Obviously one should not expect high quality code from them.

  This is why I think percentage of "good", say, Java code is higher than percentage of "good" Perl code. It is not because Java is better. It is because Perl is easier to learn and program in.

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  Ilya Martynov (http://martynov.org/ [martynov.org])