A little late for your 5:30 deadline - although its hard to respect a
company that wants a serious comparison of language issues in
a few hours. One site I like is the following:
http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/keith/crisis/
The site is imperfect, and doesn't seem to have been updated
recently, but it is good for inspiration. The author knew a lot
of programming languages and got into some sort of minor mental
crisis over comparing them and rating their usefulness. The result
was this site which lays out about 20-30 issues that should be
considered in rating languages, and then compares about 12-15
well known languages on those issues. He actually assigns
numerical scores guageing the importance of each issue, and sums
and graphs the results for each language - his weighting scheme
is debatable, but the list of issues to think about is extensive and
very useful in structuring one's thinking, or writing presentations
on such questions.
On Thu, 18 Nov 1999, you wrote:
> Ok.... This is probably the thing that I am absolutely the worst at. I
> need to come up with server pros and cons from a biusness, programming, &
> software side for using REBOL in an E-Commerce situations. Im terrible at
> writing documentationing besides code. I also need to write one for PERL
> pros and cons on perl. This is mostly for executive management to see who
> dont know technology well/at all and Customers who may ask questions like
> WHY REBOL? etc. And the onyl reason I have to throw in something like PERL
> is that I have to be objective in my opinions. heh or something This just
> got thrown on me and it needs to be done by 5:30 PM today so if ANYONE has
> any PROS and CONS that they can throw in about either please email me
> privately or to the list. Just please anything can help.
>
> :)
