Exactly. Our ORM is in Perl. Also, I did in 1 file of Perl what Java would require in 10s. The need to maintain simplicity was important for my group. You have to follow the business requirements laid before you. A lot of my group writes Perl. The rest of engineering writing the customer facing stuff writes in Java. We mainly communicate over a database (read: not realtime). But there is the occasional bleed over from Java land that we have to implement the exact same code on our end as which ships in the product. But our framework is (largely) Perl. So we glue the 2 together. And as engineers, "good enough" is perfect.
Some data points for "good enough:" 1. I can scan a Maven repo for updates in under an hour 2. I can apply a in-house algorithm to a directory structure in sub-second time On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 11:12 AM, Bill Ricker <[email protected]> wrote: > each had major existing workflow in perl. > > one needed to fetch data only available with java api, other needed > algorithm only with java api. > > On 7/15/13, John Redford <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> David Larochelle wrote: >>> >>> I've also posted the slides to my blog at >> http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/dlarochelle/2013/07/14/inlinejava-using-java-wi >> th-perl/ >>> >> >> There is a question that the slides don't address which I am curious about >> -- why didn't you just use Java & Java-based languages? The slides make a >> fine argument for using Java, but little or none for using Perl with Java >> -- >> using Perl is apparently taken for granted, despite all the oddities of >> calling between them. Given that the calling cost from JVM-based dynamic >> languages (e.g. Xtend, Groovy, Jython, et al) is virtually free, why not >> use >> them instead of Perl? >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Boston-pm mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm >> > > > -- > Bill > @n1vux [email protected] > > _______________________________________________ > Boston-pm mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm -- William Cox email: [email protected] gplus.to/mydimension -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.1 GCS d- s+:+() a C++(++++)$ UBLC(++)$ P+++(++++)$ L++(+++)$ !E--- W++(+++)$ !N !o? K--? !w--- !O M++ !V- PS-(--)@ PE+() Y+ !PGP t++ !5 X+++ !R tv(+) b+>++ DI+(++) D+() G e h--- r+++ y+++>++++ ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------ _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
