On Wed, 14 Jun 2000, Madeline Schnapp wrote:
>I just read an article (which is like dozens of articles I have read
>recently) in Enterprise Systems Journal, June 2000 touting how wonderful
>Java is. I would like to summarize the article's premises below and the
>reasons given for Java's wonderfulness and respond (with your considerable
>input) praising the virtues of Perl.
Then you will run up against the main problem with such articles--all
points made are too general and vague to address usefully. If you make
an adversarial response it's bad for advocacy. If you say all these points
are true for Perl too, your response is too lame to make an impression.
The middle ground seems to be that if Java is considered "small", so is
Perl, if Java is portable, Perl is even more so, if Java is reusable
Perl is "crazy reusable", etc etc. Which, once again, is pretty lame...
The article didn't seem terribly incisive or novel to me.
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Tushar Samant
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