On Wed, 2 Jan 2002, Maciejewski, Thomas wrote:
> not to get flamed here but one of the reasons I dont like perl is that
> there are sometimes too many ways to do something ... and all of them
> are fairly cryptic ... people having different coding styles can really
> confuse the hell out of someone else that is trying to do some work with
> the code.
Why are you on a Perl list if you don't like Perl...
Anyway, this could be a long debate and everyone will have different
opinions. I use Java very little, although the software the company I
work is primarily all Java -- application server & bundled Tomcat -- and I
have had to diddle around with some of the Java servlets & JSP to get it
to cooperate with the system level stuff I usually work on (which is all
Perl). However, I have also done a lot of Perl web stuff in other venues,
both on Unix & Windows, using mod_perl, plain old CGI and ASP/PerlScript.
Java is a very clean language -- almost to clean for my tastes, to the
point that it almost looks like Visual Basic! :-)
My personal preference for web development is with mod_perl & Mason. You
can create very clean (at least for Perl), easy to maintain code, but you
still get the freedom and flexibility that Perl has always provided.
If you have a multi-programmer software project, you MUST have some kind
of coding standard or guideline. I'm trying to get the couple other
people in my company who occasionally do Perl (we're mainly a Java shop
with a couple of exceptions, like myself) to try to follow some sensible
Perl coding guidelines -- like using strict, using proper scoping, etc.
The problem is that these folks see Perl more as a fancy shell scripting
language, and are only slowly seeing that Perl can be used for far more
and in a much more elegant way than just writing replacements for shell
scripts.
-- Brett
http://www.chapelperilous.net/
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