Here is an email I received internally regarding the shortlist of languages for future software development. I must add that this is a corporate environment. I responded saying that Perl has one of the richest data structures that I know of. Strong typing is actually a bad thing as far as I am concerned. How can I rebut this arguement in a better way? Actually, there is a hidden agenda to standardize on C# here!
"I took out Perl. After looking at www.perl.org and the language more, the main item I didn't like is that it is not type safe, there are only three variables types ( http://perlpod.com/5.8.4/pod/perlintro.html#Perl%20variable%20types). Yikes! Although ti has many of the characteristics we listed, it still seems to be used for scripting than for more robust programming. I left in PHP, it is widely used. If we want to remove PHP, I have no real argument, just that it's a viable language that has the characteristics we listed. I added Cold Fusion as a web language. It is also a widely used web language and has the characteristics we listed. I would prefer it more than PHP." __________________________________________ Ranga Nathan / CSG Systems Programmer - Specialist; Technical Services; BAX Global Inc. Irvine-California Tel: 714-442-7591 Fax: 714-442-2840 _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
