Paul Makepeace wrote: > There's a lot to be said for standardising within an organisation. > That said, realistically there's stuff that C++, Java, JavaScript, and > C (to name some 'big' languages) do that Perl just can't do. Of > course, if you can say your business will never need to write software > that runs extremely fast, be bounded in memory use, link to a kernel, > build UIs, run in a web browser, or do well, whatever Java does :-) > then fair enough. >
That's exactly why I updated my message before sending to be scripting language rather than just language. > But I don't see any other > scripting language out there that comes close to handling a diverse > range of tasks, as well as Perl does. I accept there are things you just have to do in C, C++ and JavaScript. Or I even guess Java for things like phone games (though I've never really liked Java for some reason). > (This is all in support of your basic premise there's real value is > specialising, btw.) > Yes. Real value in specialising in Perl! Lyle _______________________________________________ BristolBathPM mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.bristolbath.org/mailman/listinfo/bristolbathpm
