From: "Goke Aruna" <mykl...@gmail.com>
Hi all,
I think its time the real beauty of perl from the origin is restored.
Although am not a programmer per see but I used only perl and bash for
whatever I need in programming.
I think all the so called disadvantages today could be ported to perl
from other languages as Rasnita had raised, this used to be the perl
advantages that I know getting good features from other languages.
Of course they can be ported, but for the moment many of them are not, and
the Perl community is not so interested in Windows OS, although it is the
most used OS and the OS used by the most businesses. Perl doesn't have a
great support for newer technologies but there are old and standard
technologies which are not covered by Perl.
For example, I was searching a few days ago to see if Perl has support for
the FIX protocol (Financial Information Exchange), the protocol used by
brokerage companies for a very long time all over the world, but I could
find only Finance::FIX which is just a useless 2 KB file and another module
much bigger but which says in the POD documentation that is incomplete and
that the next version won't be backward compatible probably.
Of course, there are many libraries available for C/C++, Java and DotNet,
but there are also even for Python and Ruby.
I am also programming only in Perl, but I can't say that Perl has only
advantages and absolutely any disadvantage when I see that other languages
have a much better support in some fields.
Anyway, the 5.12 upward is becoming more and more interesting, those
I still regard to some standardisation like moose as restriction, but
its good to attract pple from other languages. Perl community need
publicity andf more open source codes and modules portable ms windows
will help, client based project is gui will help too.
Yes that's true. A few days ago I just wrote on the python-list mailing list
that I consider Perl better than Python and PHP for web programming because
that thing is true. Nobody said that this is not true (for the moment:)
However, if a language is better than another but is used less and less and
it has a bad image, and the language which is not so good is used more and
more and has a better image and attracts more new programmers, on the long
term that language will be improved faster and it will become much better.
There are reasons why more and more programmers prefer now Python and even
Ruby and those programmers probably don't prefer Perl because they see some
disadvantages in it, don't you think so?
Octavian
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