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Re: Why Ruby is prettier and Padre changes the Per (Score:1)

by mrStlee (9574)

What exactly are folk worried about?
I've used perl for:
Data munging
GUI's
Real-time, high availability, telecomms apps
One-off parsers many & various
Simulations & customer demos
Web-services & clients
Code-generation
Fun
& so on
Perl is admirably fit for any soft-dev task you have in mind, subject to performance constraints in certain situations. It may not be a *perfect* fit in all contexts but then again expectation to the contrary is probably not reasonable.
As for supposedly not being fit for
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  by dearfrankg (7703)
  
  We need to rethink the installation of perl programs. Waiting for cpan to do its thing is wrong! Compare installing a perl program with installing a program on WIndows or OSX. Unless the install is as simple as these other methods perl will always have an image problem. Perl installs remind me of the scrolling text when booting up the old unix box, but worse because it's interactive. Sorry I don't have a fix for the problem. :)
  - Re: Why Ruby is prettier and Padre changes the Per (Score:2)
    
    by Alias (5735) on 2010.02.09 20:29 (#71667) Homepage Journal
    
    Wrap a pretty gui over the scrolling text so people don't see it
    
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