On Sun, May 15, 2005 at 03:52:04PM +1200, Steve Holdoway wrote: > 1. The shell. Has full logic capabilities, and is very useful for > setting up stuff that needs only a few lines throwing together
that's what i meant too. "a few lines" > 2. PHP. Now this is the one I *really* object to. All the projects that > are written using this language are using something inappropriate? just because many people use it, does not mean it is good. otherwise we'd all be using windows. > Well, there's a lot of people who you consider to be wrong. *This* is > the glue that holds the web together. you are correct. i stated my opinion on it. php was not designed but kludged together. it is a security nightmare. > 3. Perl. Out of date. what? i have never even heared that about perl. what exactly makes it out of date? > Indecipherable syntax. agreed. however, it is still good for stuff that is to complex for shells. perl at least was designed to replace shell scripts and it works well in that area. and a perl script is not harder to read than a shell script that does the same thing. but also perl is being overused for things it was not designed to do. > No wonder everyone's using PHP these days. no. php is used because it is stupidly easy to mix with html. but that in itself is one of the problems in my opinion. > C, C++, Pascal, etc. Even Java is not on the list. The original post was > about scripting languages, but you removed that proviso, i did? how so? by adding lisp? lisp IS being used for scripting. look at guile. gimp uses something lisp based too. it has a minimal syntax that makes it easy to learn and get started quickly. > but didn't extend your answer to include the increased scope. i didn't add java because i did not want to extend the scope. greetings, martin. -- cooperative communication with sTeam - caudium, pike, roxen and unix offering: programming, training and administration - anywhere in the world -- pike programmer travelling and working in europe open-steam.org unix system- bahai.or.at iaeste.(tuwien.ac|or).at administrator (caudium|gotpike).org is.schon.org Martin B�hr http://www.iaeste.or.at/~mbaehr/
