That assumes you believe the myth that Java is really the language of choice in the back rooms of large enterprise IT shops. It isn't. In the financial industry perl is ubiquitous. Upper management will tell you Java is god, but if you actually look at the deployed systems that are out there doing real work and being developed, esp the SUCCESSFUL ones, they are mostly written in perl.
A few people have actually written articles on this topic, but its not in the interests of ISV's and system or IT shops marketing arms to promote a free language that has free tools. My team regularly runs rings around groups struggling to do the same stuff with Java. All our systems are already implemented as stacks of SOAP services for instance. The Java guys aren't even close to that yet. We can do in a week what it takes them 3 months to do, and well written perl is every bit as good as Java (plus perl seems to be 3-4 times faster for most real world applications). On Wednesday 03 April 2002 02:50, pwxgao wrote: > I have been using languages like Smalltalk, Perl and Java for about 15 > years. I am a huge fan of putting one in the DB for embedded server > procedures. I also beleive the best strategic option for MySQL to continue > its adoption in the Enterprise IT world is to choose Java as this language. > Perl is great. But so was Smalltalk. We develop everything in our shop now > in Java. Continuing to leverage Java for server DB prcesure makes sense. > Using yet another language, even if it is academically better suited, goes > against the mainstream. > > regards, Jon > This message was posted using eunum --- http://www.cn.eunum.com/ > To interact with a real-time, threaded interface to this e-mail list, go > visit the link MySQL below: http://www.cn.eunum.com/discussions/2-261.html > . > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > Before posting, please check: > http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) > http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) > > To request this thread, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To unsubscribe, e-mail > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Trouble > unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php --------------------------------------------------------------------- Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) To request this thread, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Trouble unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php
