From: Jay Savage > On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 8:28 AM, Bob McConnell <r...@cbord.com> wrote: > [snip] >> >> However, if the application is this complex, is Perl really the best >> language to use? It would not be my first choice. > > That is a very strange statement to make on a Perl beginners list, not > least because it's complete bosh. > > What better language to simple network control structures? This is > exactly the sort of task that Perl accomplishes better and more easily > than any other language out there, and why it's "the glue of the > internet."
The way I read his problem description, it sounded neither simple nor easy. While Perl is very useful for a number of things, it is not the best hammer to use for everything, and I believe that needs to be pointed out occasionally. Even though Larry has tried to put the kitchen sink into the interpreter, there are still tools that can do some tasks better than Perl can. In particular, all too often I see warnings that threads are still not handled very well in Perl. Until that changes, I will not consider Perl for anything that requires multi-threaded code. Bob McConnell -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
