Hi Rob, I'm pretty close to you in my views, except that I use VB essentially for the same reason I use Perl. VB owns the user interface, and Perl has the CGI. I've been burned by VB more than a few times by doing work that should have been portable, but ... Try using a VB Axtive X control in cross-language development.
One nice thing about Perl is that you can choose your own style. Many of those posting here seem particularly fascinated by tightly packed one-liners. The language supports such constructs quite well. It also supports my coding style, which tends more towards the step-by-step and verbose, pretty well. It basically comes down to a question of what works for you [and your coworkers].I would not want to major OO definition in VB because, to me, it lacks the logical crispness of C++. On the other hand, for most production projects, I do use VB, because it allows very transparent creation of GUI objects, and has a very consistent interface for managing their properties. Perl excels at text-handling. It seems very well suited to experienced programmers who appreciate its packaging of frequently-used routines that would otherwise require tedious and uncreative drudge-work to implement. Rob Richardson wrote: > David and everybody else, > > To me, Perl is a tool to be used when other tools don't fit. It's > great to be able to write a program that will run on just about every > Windows and Unix box ever made, but it's hell trying to use structures > more complicated than a hash. > > Give me Visual Basic first, and then C++. Perl is a last resort. > > Rob > > __________________________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. > http://mailplus.yahoo.com > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
