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• Scripting bridges (Score:1)

  by blech (1597)

  Not strictly related, but: "Ruby 1.8.6 and Python 2.5 are both first-class languages for Mac development [apple.com]".
  • Re: (Score:1)

    by Alias (5735)

    Why? I'll tell you why.
    
    Because Perl is resistant to being processed by development tools.
    
    Plain and simple.
    
    This is the same reason that Google goes for Java and Python mainly, because you can write huge toolchains around it.
    
    Perl is impossible to parse.
    • Re:Scripting bridges (Score:1)

      by jplindstrom (594) on 2007.07.25 8:33 (#56474) Journal

      What makes Perl impossible to parse (note: compared to Python)?
      

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      • Re: (Score:1)

        by Aristotle (5147)

        You can’t parse it without executing it, even if it looks that way.
        • Re: (Score:1)

          by davegaramond (3597)

          You can’t parse it without executing it, even if it looks that way.

          Certainly not true.
          • Re: (Score:1)

            by Aristotle (5147)

            You’re wrong.
          • Re: (Score:1)

            by btilly (5037)

            You speak from ignorance. I suggest that you read someone who speaks from experience [perlmonks.org] and reconsider your views.
            • Re: (Score:1)

              by Aristotle (5147)

              Thanks, Ben. I wanted to link that, but didn’t remember the title and couldn’t think of good search keywords to ferret it out.