Re: Useage of Perl up or down?

[abigail]

On Sat, Aug 12, 2000 at 09:44:10AM -0600, Nathan Torkington wrote:
> Madeline Schnapp writes:
> > its just that we are beginning to see the Java steamroller beginning
> > to rumble over everything in its path including Perl.
> 
> Interesting comment.  Where do you see this?  The only place I see
> Perl being replaced with Java is in the Java Servlet world.  It'd
> still be a cold day in hell before many DBAs and sysadmins changed
> from Perl to Java, I'm thinking.

I would not be so sure about that. The newest Sybase Adaptive Server
Enterprise (ASE) has Java build in. Adaptive Server Anywhere (ASA) has
had Java support for a while. AFAIK, Oracle has had Java support for a
while too.

It certainly won't complete replace Perl. But were I still be a DBA,
I would be learning Java right now. (And that's not because of Java,
if some other language was build in, I'd be learning that.)



Abigail