Martin Baehr wrote:
On Sun, May 15, 2005 at 03:28:25PM +1200, Steve Holdoway wrote:
Troll, or just *extremely* misleading?
neither. please elaborate. where do you disagree?
greetings, martin.
OK,
1. The shell. Has full logic capabilities, and is very useful for setting up stuff that needs only a few lines throwing together - for example, reformatting data. All my backup scripts are written as shellscripts. Extremely useful and extremely powerful. Before cvs existed, I even wrote a complete source code management and release procedure on top of SCCS for a multimillion GBP product in Bourne shell. It was both the best and the most maintainable tool for the task.
2. PHP. Now this is the one I *really* object to. All the projects that are written using this language are using something inappropriate? Well, there's a lot of people who you consider to be wrong. *This* is the glue that holds the web together.
3. Perl. Out of date. Indecipherable syntax. No wonder everyone's using PHP these days.
Where is...
C, C++, Pascal, etc. Even Java is not on the list. The original post was about scripting languages, but you removed that proviso, but didn't extend your answer to include the increased scope.
Steve
