Chris Winters wrote:
>
> * Gunther Birznieks ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [001212 23:53]:
>
> > ...
> >
> > A well-specified app is always easier to code regardless of Java or Perl.
> > Over the years I've become more of a fan of seeing the benefits of good
> > software engineering than really thinking a particular language is a silver
> > bullet.
>
> Yes -- it really comes down to what a company uses already and what
> it's being used for. My company is developing from scratch a web-based
> front end to a Visual Basic/SQL Server application. We could certainly
> do it faster in Perl (that's just because our Perl background is much
> stronger than our Java background), but having a Java-based solution
> is sexier and therefore more marketable than a Perl-based
> solution. (We are in business to make money, after all.) Is that a
> legitimate reason? I think so, but it's certainly a grey area.
>
> > With that said though, I still love Perl.
>
> Me too :-) It's frustrating to be doing something in Java that would
> take a much shorter time in Perl. But then there are things in Java
> that are simpler than Perl as well.
>
Appologies if I am butting in - but what you apppear to say here is that
you are using JAVA because its sex / marketdriods know of it, yet perl
would be the quicker (and hence cheaper solution ?). Surley for this
reason you should use perl and persuade the PBH of the cost benefit here
?
This has hit on a point - in that may people choose Java over Perl
because its sexier, which becomes self forfilling, unless we (the perl
community) persaude people that (mod_)perl is sexy....
Greg
>
> Chris
>
> --
> Chris Winters ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
> Building enterprise-capable snack solutions since 1988.
