I met that person and discussed about the richness or perl data structures. He was adamant that perl did not have strong typing. I told him that perl is intelligent and would guess the data type. What the heck? In business applications I have hardly come across anything more than a = b + c ! 95% what we handle are strings. Which is the most preferred language for strings?
Also, he said that perl code looked confusing! Well everything requires some getting used to. But I know a lot of COBOL programs that are utterly confusing. Requiring 'system.out.println' could be confusing for someone not used objects at all. It went on for some time but neither of us convinced the other. But I did tell him that Amazon, Google, Yahoo, Morgan Stanly all use Perl in production and in fact we are using perl in mission-critical production. We had problems but it had nothing to do with perl or the architecture! __________________________________________ 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
